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  Omaha, Neb. / Randy Brown Architects

• Healthiest Housing Markets for 2011

  The BUILDER Market Health Index points to much better prospects for 2011.

• With Women in Mind: Tailoring the Customer Experience for Female Clients

  Communicating design ideas to female clients using the Woman-Centric Matters program to better understand what women want from their home remodel.

• Rising Star: Min | Day

  Firm partners Jeffrey L. Day and E.B. Min make every site specific.

• Elm, Hidden Creek, Neb.

  Randy Brown, FAIA, LEED AP, is opposed to the typical suburban production home, so he designed the Elm model of the Hidden Creek 12-unit project to fly in the face of convention.

• houghton residence, omaha, neb.

  One programmatic move transformed the kitchen of a traditional builder house into an urbane space that works as well for intimate dinners as it does for large parties.

• university of nebraska students build net-zero energy house

• modular: crabapple, omaha, neb.

  The judges marveled at the craftsmanship of the Crabapple model at Hidden Creek, a community of 12 modern houses in Omaha, Neb. "It's interesting that we're talking about craft relating to production technologies," mused one.

• laboratory, douglas county, neb.

  When Randy Brown, FAIA, bought a 10-acre property and old house in the farm country of Omaha, Neb., he intended it to be a laboratory for experiments in how to design something so connected to the land that it looks both natural and manmade, and in how to

• pro forma: single-family

  Five firms foray into residential development in five different ways. They share the bumps and boons along the road.