Duplex (building)

"The most important thing to remember is that a duplex's properties are stretchable but they aren't infinite. One minute the opening will be right there in front of you, and the next minute you won't even know where it went."

"The difficulty that standard zoning creates for infill needs to be appreciated, because infill is just the start. We need to get far beyond the concept of infill. What we need is a system of development that allows neighborhoods to establish, grow and mature over time. Single-family homes need to evolve into duplexes. Duplexes need to mature into row houses. Row houses need to grow into low rise, mixed-use flats."

"Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity.But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.Art collectors were spivvy and profiteering even during the Renaissance."

"Living in a duplex allows for separation of space and usually offers more overall living space than a single level unit."

"I was living in this duplex. For the first time, I was alone. No dorm, no roommates—my own place. I was so happy. I had my own parking space."

"Nancy Kendricks: Besides, do you realise how much the duplex is going to be worth once we get both floors? Alex Rose: I know how much it costs. Nancy Kendricks: Well it's going to be worth like a bazillion times that. Alex Rose: Really? A bazillion? That's an incredible return."

"This one-level house used to be a duplex and had a hallway running down the middle of the house, so when former owners turned it back into a single-family home, they enclosed that hallway, giving me tons and tons of closet space."

"My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath."