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Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
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Developers would purchase a dozen or more adjacent lots and conduct the building construction as an assembly-line process. [ 3 ] Tract housing development makes use of few architectural designs, and labor costs are reduced because workers need to learn the skills and movements of constructing only those designs rather than repeat the learning ...
Build-it-yourself ranch-type house, by Tom Riley, Popular Mechanics Press, 1951 - with many details of construction and materials; Modern ranch homes designed for town or country, National Plan Service, 1951. Newest plans of ranch houses, farm buildings, motels, Authentic Publications, 1952. 72 low cost suburban-ranch homes, HomOgraf Company, 1952.
MyHouse.wad (known also as MyHouse.pk3, or simply MyHouse) is a map for Doom II created by Steve Nelson, more commonly known by "Veddge". The map is a subversive horror-thriller that revolves around a house that continues to change in shape, sometimes drastically and in a non-euclidean manner.
Class A or 4-star building: Rents in the top 30-40% of the local market; well-located; above-average upkeep and management; usually older than a trophy/5-star building; Class B or 3-star building: Rents between Class A and Class C; fair-to-good locations; average upkeep and management
Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli (Urdu: وزیرستان حویلی, romanized: Wazīristān Havelī, lit. 'Waziristan Mansion'), was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for Saudi militant Islamist Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there by U.S. forces on 2 May 2011.
William Levitt came to symbolize the new suburban growth with his use of mass-production techniques to construct large developments of houses, eponymously named Levittowns, selling for under $10,000. Many other relatively inexpensive suburban developments soon appeared throughout the country.