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November 1, 2006
AIA Project of the Month: Under one roof, Lao Highlanders find freedom and family
By CLAIR ENLOW
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Bamboo is an amazingly durable and beautiful material, as anyone who has built with it knows.
It's a pleasant surprise to find it arrayed on the sides of a new building at the end of a long drive just south of the Seattle Housing Authority's Othello Station on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard — and it's a clue that this is not an extension of any nearby development.
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