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For those of you who have never been (or even those who have), you must spend an hour on a sunny day winding your way through Bow Mar. As with many rural areas post-WWII, large farms were converted into residential housing developments. Bow Mar is by far one of the most well done farm to subdivis...

  The late Richard Crowther was a pioneer in green development, passive solar design, and energy efficiency. He gave lectures on solar energy at universities nationwide and wrote some of the most important books on the subject, including the famous Sun, Earth: Alternative Energy Design for Archi...

  Recently the home of Denver's mid-century architecture/design team, Joseph and Louise Marlow, came on the market. Not surprisingly, it was under contract within a week. A remarkable modernist residence from 1948 with original features we consider contemporary...waxed concrete floors with radian...