The same week that Alice Rawsthorn was writing
about A Prefab House That Dazzles Still, the Pacific Palisades home of Charles and Ray Eames, I was in Paris, visiting another dazzling steel and glass house, the Maison
Not exact matches
One of the big complaints
about modern
prefab is its inability to deliver at the cost that everyone expects (like matching production
housing or less) and the problem of acquiring land, which is expensive, particularly in areas around cities like San
In the last
housing recession just
about every
prefab company in the States and Canada went bankrupt because of this, and it is likely to happen again.
Although Kristin may have written
about the first 100 % solar - powered affordable
housing project in San Diego, and there was some debate whether these
prefab solar homes in Chicago were fairly priced, in general the terms «solar» and «affordable» don't (yet) sit well together in the public imagination.
It's time to dismiss stereotypes
about prefabricated single - family
housing and take a look at the latest generation of
prefabs, which are strikingly contemporary and even glamorous.