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For his senior project, Jon Selway studied the conversion of the South Bay power plant into an algae farm and eco-park. |
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SMOKESTACKS & GERANIUMS ROGER SHOWLEY
Class action
Architecture grads have some radical ideas about remaking our built environment
Leave it to some newly minted young local architects to think outside the box. Leave it to some newly minted young local architects to think outside the box. In their final thesis projects, this year's crop of 70 graduate and undergraduate students at downtown's NewSchool of Architecture and Design turned a passion for housing, infrastructure and other aspects of the built environment into research papers, models, drawings and, in some cases, videos.
HOUSING SCENE LEW SICHELMAN
Uncle Sam's little-known loans worth a second look
WASHINGTON – Two little-known federal lending programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have two plug nickels to rub together for a down payment or don't have any money left over after closing to modernize their properties.
Meet the Young Architect of the Year
Matthew Ellis, 36, principal and founder of Bluemotif Architecture, recently received the local American Institute of Architects chapter's Young Architect of the Year Award. He earned bachelor's degrees in architecture and environmental design from Ball State University and moved to San Diego in 1997.
Every last drop
If you have an aversion to saving the planet by going green, how do you feel about saving some green? You can lower your water bill by adjusting your lawn mower to a higher setting.
