Happy 71st Anniversary to The Wizard of Oz

Today marks the 71^st anniversary of the Victor Fleming film, The Wizard of Oz. And being from Kansas we couldn’t let the day go by without acknowledging what many consider the best film of all time.  Based on the 1900 novel of the same name by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz , is about a 12-year old Kansas farmgirl, named Dorothy Gale, who is knocked unconscious during a tornado and wakes up in the magical Land of Oz and with her dog Toto too!

We see the differences in design and architecture during Dorothy’s journey from Kansas to the Land of Oz and then on to the Emerald City. The sepia-toned reality of Kansas is a stark contrast to almost sensory-overload of the Technicolor of Oz.  The Land of Oz is bright with color, from the yellow brick road to the glimmering green structures of its capital, Emerald City.

Take a look at some of the images below and see how the architecture of Oz are a vast difference from her home in Kansas.

Below is a clip from the movie where Dorothy opens the door of her Kansas farmhouse and steps into the colorful world of Oz.

*A prequel to Wizard of Oz is scheduled to be released in 2013. It will be directed by Spider-Man’s Sam Raimi and is likely to star Robert Downey, Jr.

Design Build Team Postcards Arriving in Your Mailbox Soon!

Take a look at our newly designed postcards that will be arriving in the mail shortly.

If you’d like to receive postcards in your mailbox, please send us an email with your name and address to mdussair@designbuildteam.com.

Overland Park Ranked 7th Best Place to Live by Money Magazine

Overland Park ranked number 7 on Money magazine’s 2010 ‘Best Places to Live’ list! The magazine ranked the cities by looking at their housing affordability, school quality, diversity, arts and leisure, safety and health care. The other Kansas City area cities that made the top 100 list are Shawnee at 17, Lee’s Summit at 27 and Blue Springs at 49.  This isn’t Overland Park’s first time on Money magazine’s top ten list, we were ninth in 2008 and sixth in 2006.

Here’s a brief look at the other top ten cities:

1. Eden Prairie, MN
2. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
3. Newton, MA
4. Bellevue, WA
5. McKinney, TX
6. Fort Collins, CO
7. Overland Park, KS
8. Fishers, IN
9. Ames, IA
10. Rogers, AR

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