The following is from an article published
in the Wall Street Journal on 5/01/2009.

" Some residential suburban communities
insist on tiled roofs; others dictate color palettes and lot sizes. Often, the
goal is to capture the look of a time in the past, before modern living and
high housing costs changed tastes and materials.

But a small number of new developments is
taking the opposite tack. Here, buried amongst a middle-class community and
near the Central Expressway, is a street where the construction of Colonials
and Tudors is expressly forbidden. Even mid-century modern is considered passé.
"Make no mistake. It's a dictatorship and I make the rules," project
developer Diane Cheatham says half-jokingly.

The result is Urban Reserve, a 13-acre
development devoted to contemporary design. Pass a neighborhood of standard
issue brick tract ranches and turn onto Vanguard Way and suddenly one confronts
what looks like scene from a science fiction movie…."   -written by Nancy Keates

Click here for the full article and slideshow at wsj.com

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left:  Exterior of See-Thru House, hMa's design for the Urban Reserve
development.  Above : Interior view, See-Thru House

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