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Housing associations also borrowed huge sums from banks to buy chunks of land, forming joint ventures with mainstream builders.

A Georgian mansion will get treated in the right way because of its Grade-listing, but a Victorian or Edwardian terrace or townhouse will end up getting treated by mainstream builders, who apply modern techniques and modern materials, like concrete, to old buildings," he says.

Wid Chapman, an architect and co-author of "Unassisted Living: Ageless Homes for Later Life," said the 2010 census showed that the shift to the "nonlinear family" is part of an evolution that will be accelerated now that mainstream builders are responding to it.

Just as the civil-rights movement had many kinds of heroes — radical agitators and mainstream institution builders — the drama of marriage rights has found a perhaps unlikely star in Andrew Cuomo.

While high culture often demands the shock of the new, and mainstream home builders erect endless variations on faux traditional, he builds houses, civic buildings and the occasional monastery with the irony-free rigor of an ancient.

The capital comes at a time of rapid growth and will propel the platform into the mainstream, allowing Builder to open the door for entire categories of companies that could not consider it before".

As green construction goes mainstream, architects and builders are becoming better versed in environmentally friendly construction, and new green products are increasing the choices — thus lowering the prices — for elements like floors and countertops.

The architect for Four Corners, Rick New of DTJ Design in Boulder, Colo., noted that while the idea of New Urbanism is becoming more mainstream, "lots of times builders only use it as a marketing gimmick by just putting a garage in the back of a house and the porch in front".

The pardon has deepened the disgust that many Peruvians feel toward mainstream politics, after a graft scandal involving Brazilian builder Odebrecht has ensnared two former presidents in the past year.

Independently produced, with a Sundance audience award in its pocket, it attracted the sponsorship of Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, media empire builders whose names are potent brands for mainstream audiences.

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