9:46 am in architects, modular homes, norway, prefab, prefabricated housing by TreeHugger
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70°N arkitektur Bent Raanes
One of the wonderful things about
Architizer, the " open community created by architects for architects", is that so many projects turn up that one may have missed the first time around. A good example is the
XBO Mobile Unit, submitted by Norwegian firm
70 N arkitektur as.. It's a two part 10'-6" modular design that was built in 2004.
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8:59 am in london, prefab, prefabricated, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
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BoxPark is "the world's first pop-up shopping mall", being built at the Shoreditch High Street station in London. It's designed by
Waugh Thistleton, known to TreeHuggers for their
Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers. I am beginning to understand why I like Andrew Waugh so much; he is an architect in a hurry. He loves the idea of BoxPark because it will take three months to outfit a store off...
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10:51 am in flatpack, india, prefab, prefabricated housing by TreeHugger
Image via
Car Advice.
TATA, which famously brought a
$2500 car to India, is now is taking orders for an entire house (without garage for the nano car) for 32,000 rupees ($720). That's $3.34 per square foot!
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5:10 am in cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, designers, materials, prefab, recycled, recycled building materials, sustainablility, urban life by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
The original
Festival of Britain in 1951 was a huge celebration of British culture, design, art, science and ingenuity. Now
its 60 year anniversary is being celebrated on the banks of the Thames in London.
But these are different times and one of the keynotes of the exhibits is a recognition of sustainability and environmentalism in the future. Hence the urban fox on patrol...
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2:08 pm in designers, hotels, netherlands, prefab by TreeHugger
Building hotels is expensive, and so is staying in them, particularly in Europe. Sem Schuurkes and Pieter van Tilburg have developed an L shaped pop-up hotel room that can be put in any building. Unlike
Japanese capsule hotels, the L shape gives one room to stand up inside. It is an interesting idea that has perhaps a broader reach than just hotels; It might work well in
Graham's LifeEdited or similar small apartments where one wants acoustic privacy and room for guests. ...
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8:15 am in architecture for humanity, cameron sinclair, japan, prefab, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
TreeHugger first showed the Daiwa EDV-1, the amazing robotic shipping container instant house,
back in January. Now the prototype is coming Stateside (no doubt carried by supersonic helicopters) in July for
Little Tokyo Design Week in Los Angeles. The press release has more information about the device, but nothing compares to the first two minutes of the video, where Roland Emmerich meets Cameron Sinclair to make the best disaster movie ever....
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8:42 am in architecture, flatpack, london, prefab, survey by TreeHugger
I was shocked and appalled at Bonnie's post on the
London Olympic basketball stadium; it gives flatpack a bad name. It looks the the shrink-wrapped boats you see at marinas in winter. It looks like a giant bunion pad. Now I know this is not a money-no-object extravaganza like Beijing was, but British architects have done great temporary designs, from
Archigram in the sixties to
Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park with their rock sets for...
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1:29 pm in prefab, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Images courtesy of Sunset Magazine
Sunset Magazine always makes a splash on their Celebration Weekend with a model home; Michelle Kaufmann got her big launch when they presented her first Glidehouse there, and the first
Breezehouse in 2005. They are often grand things, like
Henry Siegel's in 2006. But times being what they are, this year's home is small, affordable, and built from a recycled shipping container....
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I always wondered why manufactured homes were called "mobile homes" when they are usually plopped on a foundation and become completely immobile. But they are certainly mobile in Dundalk, Ontario; according to
