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… make it look too forbidding or too much like a fort The design has to be appropriate to the building and also has to … In this his 11th book eight of them are about the luxury homes of the rich and famous Alpern has chosen 168 buildings … Its fourandahalf story facade mimics a Renaissanceperiod English country house an effect produced by just a few …

… that spurred the revitalization of the neighborhood  In an introduction to New York Rising Mellins and Ascher write … latest activities Second and more importantly there is no index In a book covering such a broad span of history it …