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Houses like pixels

Las Vegas Gambles on Growth - Photography by Alex S. MacLean/Landslides

The sprawling housing developments remind me of a design covenant I heard about somewhere in Florida: adjacent houses must have differently colored roof tiles. Why? Maybe for variety but I think really so no one mistakes their cookie cutter home for their neighbor's.

via things magazine

* Ray, 5/11/2005 08:42:03 AM

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