Sentences with phrase «prefab design»

But with the housing market showing inklings of a recovery, earlier this year The Times reported on another prefab design: the C6, touted as an affordable modern offering from the Santa Monica, Calif., company LivingHomes.

But I thought if anyone would survive it would be Michelle Kaufmann, the queen of prefab design and marketing, who when I wrote her best of green award, said «an entire industry rides on her coat - tails.»

In a week when we heard the sad news that «the queen of prefab design and marketing» Michelle Kaufman is closing her business's doors due to difficulties posed by the economic downturn, TH Blog Love scours the blogosphere for positive green architecture stories and thankfully we weren't disappointed!

It's a home that makes the very most of what may seem like a small footprint, with spaces that feel open, fresh and light - filled, demonstrating the best and latest in prefab design down under.

As the lack of labor draws costs up, looking to prefab designs is often just a win - win.

Not exact matches

* «While the original design used the same reinforced concrete used for decades, the altered design used a more prefab approach, where concrete would be sandwiched between steel plates.»

Do designs for low - cost, sustainable prefab homes ever get thrown up by the existing housing market?

Kaufmann's book Prefab Green describes off - site construction and the green design principles of homes such as the Glidehouse ®, the Sunset ® Breezehouse ®, the mkLotus ®, and others.

Quality prefab homes, prefabricated houses and home additions, panelized hurricane homes, custom designed using a post & beam home building system.

So with some trepidation I post herein the ÖÖD; it is a design out of Estonia for an instant prefab mirrored hotel room pod; just add to Airbnb and you are in business.

The firm was set - up to develop an innovative, potentially revolutionary design, which would make a carbon - neutral, eco-friendly, prefab house available to the mass market.

Designed to delivered on just two trucks, the prefab is assembled from precut, biodynamically grown wooden panels, which are doweled together onsite rather than glued.

I will confess to a case of prefab ennui; I have waited a decade for it to make green modern design affordable and accessible and it has not yet fulfilled its promise.

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One of the big attractions of modern prefab housing was the fact that architects and builders got to repeat and refine their designs; every iteration got a little bit better.

We have previously mentioned the exhibition of modern prefab, A Clean Break opening in Philadelphia on October 16; in addition to the WeeHouse and MiniHome, there is also an exhibition, including work by Interface Studio Architects, who designed the

The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy

Chad Ludeman, developer of the 100K House, has looked at the prefab industry closely and concludes: «I just don't believe it is the best way of delivering modern design to the average new home buyer.»

Architect Ralph Rapson was a pioneer of prefab, did a classic case study house, and was still designing» till the day he died, on March 29.

This slick sustainable prefab house drew crowds at the 2011 Dwell on Design.

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The six to twelve months that Chad claims prefabs takes includes design, building permits and probably all deficiency cleanups.

When Warren Buffet bought Clayton Homes in 2003 I was still working in the prefab biz; Punching well above my weight, I sent him an email about the business case for a mobile home manufacturer doing well designed

There are also prefab tiny homes, and a great addition to the already existing lineup is the so - called ARK Shelter, which was designed and built by a Holland - based company.

Japanese design brand Muji has revealed the prototype for its latest prefab house, which it will test by having a competition winner move in rent - free for two years (+ movie).

Referred to as the Rainbow Duplex, the home was designed by Marken Projects and built by Durfield Constructors with a high - performance, panelized prefab system by BC Passive House.

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Blu ® Homes builds award - winning, architecturally designed prefab houses in a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Vallejo, California using a proprietary steel framing and building technology that results in economical, low - maintenance houses that are strong, beautiful, and finished on - site.

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This year's Solar Decathlon home design competition saw many fresh takes on the solar - powered prefab home, but Team New Zealand stood out from the pack with its elegant, light - filled, wood clad home.

On another design website they title their post The Vipp Shelter is a plug - and - play prefab home that can be placed just about anywhere.

(I made a design error on a granite counter when I was working in prefab and it took thousands of dollars to replace.)

We never called them prefabs, but Deborah Schneiderman's new book shows a lot of what we have called transformer furniture and downloadable designs.

The grand dream of those promoting green modern prefab is that it will do for housing what IKEA did for furniture: make good modern design popular, affordable and available to everyone.

Team Florida's FLeX House is a prefab home designed to take advantage of passive cooling during the state's more mild months and locks down for full efficiency during temperature extremes.

We have previously mentioned the exhibition of modern prefab, A Clean Break opening in Philadelphia on October 16; in addition to the WeeHouse and MiniHome, there is also an exhibition, including work by Interface Studio Architects, who designed the 100K House, which is most definitely not a prefab in the traditional sense.

Gorgeous green homewares, scintillating sustainability forums, abfab prefab displays, green designs and architecture are the focus at «dwell on design,» dwell magazine's fourth

Which brings up the most incredible aspect of Prototype 2: It is going to be used as the basis for a 24 - unit prefab building in Manchester, England; a building, Spurrier reports, will stay largely true to the prototype's design.

It was showcased on Channel 4's Grand Designs TV show, which we last mentioned for a prefab home.

To recap, the Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house, designed by one of Sweden's top architects Gert Wingårdh, in order to radically reduce their annual carbon footprint to one tonne per person.

The house was constructed by prefab experts A-Hus, but designed as a mass producible model by Wingårdh.

They design and also build prefabs, Passivhaus and sometimes even prefab passivhaus.

Dezeen points us to a neat modern little prefab, the KODA, from Estonian design collective Kodasema.

Read more by Christopher Hawthorne in The Los Angeles Times, who broke the story last night: Green prefab firm Michelle Kaufmann Designs is closing

Not only is it passive, it's prefab, built by Carbonlite Design + Build (great name!).

With a fleet of different designs from different manufacturers, and the awakening of park owners to the possible size of this market, I suspect we will be seeing and hearing a lot more about park model modern prefab.

Selling at Lowes may not sound like a big deal, but in fact is a huge step in the prefab business - a major mainstream retailer selling architect - designed, well resolved solutions at reasonable prices.

Architect Ari Leinonon designed this houseboat - sauna for his parents, and since it is Europe and the prefab companies are a little more sophisticated than in North America, it got snapped up by Swedish prefabber Modern Living, which makes a whole range of interesting modern prefabs.

One of the reasons I am so fond of prefab is that it it makes houses more like industrial design, where you refine and test your product before you foist it on the public.

In 1996 Oscar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Ruf designed and built Su - Si, a small modern prefab; in 2002 Allison Arieff and Bryan Burkhart put it on the cover of their book Prefab and it became an icon, the poster boy for the modern prefab movprefab; in 2002 Allison Arieff and Bryan Burkhart put it on the cover of their book Prefab and it became an icon, the poster boy for the modern prefab movPrefab and it became an icon, the poster boy for the modern prefab movprefab movement.