Gold Nugget Awards Reflect Shifts in Housing Landscape

Good looks still matter in annual design competition, but the winning homes are also contextual, affordable, and energy-efficient.
By: Jenny Sullivan and Jessica Porter

There will always be a place for the luxury estate overlooking a majestic hillside, or a beautiful stretch of coastline. But houses, on the whole, are getting smaller, more economical, more energy-efficient, and more urban as builders gingerly emerge from the recession and get their backhoes rumbling again.

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