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WHAT: Presentation of the final plans for a new home to be built on the vacant lot at 1112 Villa St.WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: St. Catherine's High School, 1200 Park Ave.Architects, UW-Milwaukee students joining forces for revitalization projectsRACINE - The vacant lot at 1112 Villa St. may soon become a single-family home as part of a project aimed at getting architects to work directly with neighborhoods to make them better.The project grew out of a charge the American Institute of Architects gave its chapters: Find a way to give something back to your communities.John Holz, incoming president of the American Institute of Architects-Milwaukee, said their membership wanted to show the community "architects are in the trenches, rolling up their sleeves and working for them."Holz, who is also a senior project designer at Plunkett Raysich Architects in Milwaukee, charged architecture students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with designing affordable, single-family homes for select sites in Racine and Milwaukee."In our initiative, we're not just putting up a house on a vacant lot," he said.
WHAT: Presentation of the final plans for a new home to be built on the vacant lot at 1112 Villa St.WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: St. Catherine's High School, 1200 Park Ave.Architects, UW-Milwaukee students joining forces for revitalization projectsRACINE - The vacant lot at 1112 Villa St. may soon become a single-family home as part of a project aimed at getting architects to work directly with neighborhoods to make them better.The project grew out of a charge the American Institute of Architects gave its chapters: Find a way to give something back to your communities.John Holz, incoming president of the American Institute of Architects-Milwaukee, said their membership wanted to show the community "architects are in the trenches, rolling up their sleeves and working for them."Holz, who is also a senior project designer at Plunkett Raysich Architects in Milwaukee, charged architecture students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with designing affordable, single-family homes for select sites in Racine and Milwaukee."In our initiative, we're not just putting up a house on a vacant lot," he said.
Some days, Leah Farley sits on her front deck in Kansas City, Kan., and watches the cars trickle by. She gets a kick out of people's reaction when they notice the bizarre edifice behind her, the rectangular structure she calls home. "I think most people who live around here have pretty much gotten used to it," she said. "But sometimes, people stop and stare." They squint, incredulous. They roll down their windows, trying to get a better look. And sometimes, she said, "They almost wreck their cars." Farley lives in an award-winning, modular house designed and built by graduate students at the University of Kansas. The home — nestled amid older homes at 534 Riverview Ave. in Strawberry Hill — is an architectural marvel that, as Farley put it, "sticks out like a sore thumb." It also has attracted national recognition.
A fire that destroyed at a house under construction in Hamiltonban Township was "definitely É suspicious," because the modular home had no electricity and other utilities weren't turned on yet, Adams County Fire Marshal Glenn Herring said this morning. Neighbors discovered the fire at 10 Scotch Trail about 12:35 a.m. Tuesday. "(The house) was totally involved when we arrived," said Fountaindale Fire Co. Chief Dave Martin. "We went on defensive mode from the start and surrounded and drowned it." It took firefighters from nine fire companies in Pennsylvania and Maryland 25 minutes to control the blaze, Martin said. Herring and a Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal from Chambersburg were expected to begin investigating today. But rain may delay the start of the investigation, which will take several days, Herring said.
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