Tag: design

  • The Gable Epidemic: A Plea to Modern Home Designers

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    What is going on with all the gables being added to homes over the last 10 years? Seriously, are there tax breaks for the more gables you have that I don’t know about? Or have architects and builders just gotten too lazy to figure out a coherent design plan? The logic seems to be: design…

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  • My C and D Pillar Design Rules: Why So Many Cars Have Ugly Backs

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    I have a long-running obsession, unusual for an American, with station wagons. Why the wagon got such a bad rap here, I’m honestly not sure. They were never considered cool even before National Lampoon’s Vacation permanently chained them to the suburban-dad image — but Europe figured out decades ago that the wagon (and its cousin,…

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