Those still building in the 55-plus market have embraced other modifications: converting attic space into loft bedrooms, for instance, or adding finished basements for visiting grandchildren.
With 1,400 shellfish visible in those tanks, and another 9,000 live creatures visible in the basement when you visit the loo, for once the PR blurb about a "seafood mecca" is forgivable hyperbole.
While Mr. Libeskind's Holocaust basement frames a visit, upstairs in the permanent exhibition the Holocaust is pointedly framed, even minimized, by displays about the nearly 2,000 years of Jewish life preceding it and by the postwar period, so that German Jews are not defined, as the Nazis desired, solely as victims and corpses.
The downstairs of the house is also open seasonally to visitors, and parts of the upstairs and the basement can be visited on guided tours.
The accuser said he never spent the night at Sandusky's home, but that he and Sandusky wrestled in the basement during his visits there.
The dark and cavernous Catacombs bar, in the basement, is worth a visit.
IN 1892, Crown Prince Nicholas of Russia travelled to Bari, in south-eastern Italy, to visit the basement of a medieval basilica.
On a recent visit, the basement bar was wall-to-wall with stylish ladies in form-fitting fashions and severely hip hairstyles.
In Union City, N.J., on weekends old Cubanos visit the basement of Hijos y Amigos de Fomento, a social club built to evoke the Cuban town from which many of the club's members fled into exile.
Mr. Bykovsky and Ms. Sokolova passed out condoms from a green backpack and tried to coax the women to visit their basement clinic, which offers exams and advice to slow the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
