Mr. Despont, who is also working on Bill Gates's immense house in Medina, Wash., says he, too, is seeing tentative signs of a recovery.
She was impressed, recording in her diary: "It is a very fine edifice, and is an immense house, it would be impossible for me to attempt even to give anything like a description of it".
Meanwhile, London had developed an immense housing crisis; its ballooning population shackled by construction regulation.
A couple of years back, the Cushings sold several acres to some prosperous newcomers, who built on it an immense shingled house of their own.
He painted "to decondition myself," he wrote in "Emergence/Resurgences," and to escape from language, which he vividly compared to "an immense prefabricated house handed down from generation to generation, ever demanding our faithful residence, ever forcing us into ostentation".
The focus of his attention is the Villa Calpurnia, an immense stone house in a Main Line Philadelphia suburb that was built in the 1880's, modeled on a villa in Frascati and inauspiciously named for one of Julius Caesar's wives.
In countries like Ireland and Spain, where huge housing bubbles burst, the devastation has been immense.
In effect, many of the big banks have turned themselves from businesses whose profits rose and fell with the capital-raising needs of their clients into immense trading houses whose fortunes depend on their ability to exploit day-to-day movements in the markets.
And Mayor Daley's beautified city still lives under the curse of segregation that his father quite literally helped to set in concrete, with strategically placed highways and immense public housing projects that consigned poor black Chicagoans to living out of sight and mind of whites.
Then there's the anonymous untitled photo above, which presents a stark, close-up image of a singular moment inside a facility that hints at the immense pain housed inside prison walls.
Ms. Taylor hedges a bit, with several portraits and an immense landscape, "Security House," that aren't substantially different from previous efforts.
