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EVERYBODY has pictures on their walls. Even if it is only posters stuck with Blu-Tack, art is part of the furniture in every home. But if you bought Nathan Coley's Lamp of Sacrifice, 286 Places of Worship, you would have to move out to make room for it. Cardboard scale models of all the places of worship listed in the Edinburgh Yellow Pages for 2004, all jumbled together, completely fill the floor in two large rooms at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA). Yinka Shonibare's Sun, Sea and Sand, several hundred paper plates decorated with brightly coloured patterns from African textiles, fills the floor of another room. It leaves only a narrow passage, but Martin Creed's Work no 370, Balls - several hundred balls of conceivable, kind, size and pattern scattered across the floor - fills the big central room so completely, you have to walk through the middle of it.
Spring Creek opened its doors Saturday to show off its new batch of affordable housing in Truckee.
As many as 60 people came to check out the factory-built modular homes at Spring Creek, located behind Alder Creek Middle School near the Pioneer Commerce Center, said Karl Saimre of Truckee River Associates.
Upon completion, Spring Creek will include a total of 30 affordable housing units and 36 market-rate housing units. Saimre said seven of the 14 constructed affordable units currently in place are reserved for qualified purchasers, with three more units reserved that will be built next fall. The selling price for the 1,300-square-foot duplex units is $305,000, he said.
The profile of interested buyers was across the board for Saturdays open house, Saimre said, but most were Truckee locals who live in the area full-time.
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