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Defining a House Style: What Makes A Creole Home?

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

It and its surrounding areas are home to a truly unique style of architecture known as the Creole home. Read on to learn for yourself what makes this type of architecture so special. In much the same way, the history of Creole architecture comes to us from a variety of different paths. Others think it came directly from France.

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The Best Solar Panels for 2016 — and beyond

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

“Part of this affordable housing project is an historic 1926 YMCA originally designed by Paul Williams, the first African-American to be certified as an architect west of the Mississippi,” writes Alissa Walker for Gizmodo. A semi-transparent solar skylight brightens the TGV high-speed train station in Perpignan, France.