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At the southernmost end of Duke Street, flanked by humble bungalow-style abodes and colonial revival mansions, sit two houses that don’t quite square with their surroundings.

In fact, they are perfectly round.

But by this winter, the identical circular houses, which have overlooked the busy thoroughfare for 60 years, will no longer be twins.

A new owner is building a conventional addition onto the rear of the house at 1013 S. Duke St., introducing the house’s first corners. Read more

In Los Gatos, Calif., controversy has raged this summer over the city planning commission’s approval of a proposed hillside home that will occupy a whopping 3,600 square feet - and that’s just the basement. Atop that walkout basement will be 5,500 more square feet of house.

The prospective owner says he’ll build to “green” standards, but at the Aug. 8 meeting where the permit was approved, the city’s lone dissenting planning commissioner stated the obvious when he told the owner, “You have a 9,000-square-foot house with a three-car garage and a pool. I don’t see that as green.” Read more

In Los Gatos, Calif., controversy has raged this summer over the city planning commission’s approval of a proposed hillside home that will occupy a whopping 3,600 square feet - and that’s just the basement. Atop that walkout basement will be 5,500 more square feet of house.

The prospective owner says he’ll build to “green” standards, but at the Aug. 8 meeting where the permit was approved, the city’s lone dissenting planning commissioner stated the obvious when he told the owner, “You have a 9,000-square-foot house with a three-car garage and a pool. I don’t see that as green.” Read more