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“Foreclosed” Reopens the American Dream
At 2,500 square feet, The Museum of Modern Art’s Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery, site of the exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, is about the size of the average suburban house. But while that may be too much square footage for the typical family, it is too little for a show this rich.

Solar Boom in India
By March 2012, the end of its fiscal year, India has committed to install 250 MW of photovoltaic systems—up from just 22 MW at the start of the year. As this growth is in keeping with India’s National Solar Mission, which aims to install 20 GW by 2022, the country’s solar industry now seems set to take off.

First Landscape Pilot Projects Certified Under SITES Program
The Sustainable Sites Initiative, or SITES, has certified the first three projects under its four-star system for rating the sustainable design, construction and maintenance of built landscapes.

Going Antiquing: A guest house features salvage at many scales.
Carver + Schicketanz Architects clad the rehabilitated barn in a translucent structural composite that transmits natural illumination, as well as light from within.

NYC Benchmarks Buildings, Finds Room for Improvement