10:42 am in architects, Design & Architecture, james howard kunstler, prefabricated housing, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Image Credit Andrew Maynard
@andrewmaynard tweets about a slideshow of
Homes of the Future on CNBC that features his Airdrop House,
featured on TreeHugger here. Author Daniel Bukszpan writes:
A quick look outside shows that the home of the future as depicted in films never quite caught on. Contenders are still being built, however. It's just that society's priorities have changed--homes are being designed with an eye toward sus...Read the full story on TreeHugger
8:59 am in london, prefab, prefabricated, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Images credit BoxPark
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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9:46 am in germany, less is more, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
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Nils Günther
This is different:
Dezeen shows a police box in front of the Turkish Consulate in Hanover. The police used to sit in an old Volkswagen van, but an architect with the German firm
Gesamtkonzept proposed something better, and surprisingly, they accepted the idea. ...
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8:07 am in architecture for humanity, Design & Architecture, design competitions, green roofs, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Images Credit Aphid iODEA on the
Open Architecture Network
I am late to the party on this one, already seen on
Inhabitat and
Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center of Regenerative Research & Education, designed by
APHIDoIDEA, "an open_collaborative_th...
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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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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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4:55 pm in prefab, shipping container architecture, slovenia, untreehugger by TreeHugger
Images credit
Jure Kotnik
Inhabitat and
Archdaily are showing a temporary kindergarten made from three shipping containers, designed by Slovenian architect
Jure Kotnik. They are odd looking containers, with unusual siding and there is something about those corner castings, the solid steel blocks that containers are picked...
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