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    Design and Architecture

    Megamansions, Tower of Voices

    As LA homes get smaller they are also getting bigger. Can they keep on growing? DnA explores large luxury houses, and finds out who is building them, who is buying them -- and why amenities matter.

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    By Frances Anderton • Sep 11, 2018 • 28m Listen

    As LA homes get smaller they are also getting bigger. Can they keep on growing? DnA explores large luxury houses, and finds out who is building them, who is buying them -- and why amenities matter. Plus, Tower of Voices in Pennsylvannia memorializes, with wind and chimes, those who went down with a fight on United Flight 93.

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    2 stories
    1. 0:37

      "19 shades of white" add character to an LA megamansion

      Scott Gillen takes pride in his New Castle in Malibu. Photo by Frances Anderton. In the very time that residential space in L.A. is being designed smaller, down to the scale of micro units, it's also gotten bigger.

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      22 min
    2. 22:23

      Tower of Voices

      A view of Tower of Voices, marking the entrance to the Flight 93 National Memorial national park. Image courtesy of NPS Photo. Today marks seventeen years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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      6 min
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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

      Culture

    In this episode

    2 stories
    1. 0:3722 min

      "19 shades of white" add character to an LA megamansion

    2. 22:236 min

      Tower of Voices

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