Sentences with phrase «prefab does»

Although this construction photo looks a lot like conventional construction (if a Libeskind building can look conventional), Michael Sylvester points out that prefab doesn't have to mean repetitive.

Not exact matches

people in the U.S. live in mobile home that cost $ 5 grands a pop, erect stunning prefab house with barely a quarter of the cost should you hire a local general contractor to do so.

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

We eat home - cooked foods, wholesome, real foods, and I do eat the odd Atkins bar, but limit myself to one serving a day of any «prefab» lowcarb bar, or biscuit.

Just do a proper Atkins diet from the original instructions - no prefab garbage.

Better Luck Tomorrow is a huge step forward, and though it doesn't fully transcend its small budget, the story feels rooted in something more solid than prefab posturing.

Egan drives to the prefab «war zone» via the Vegas Strip; characters especially Egan's superior (Bruce Greenwood) and the program's newest member (Zoë Kravitz) don't so much converse as exchange politically charged talking points.

Also, when everything is prefab, the new pet owner does not have a chance to really understand the way a setup works and what the new pet really requires.

There are also forays into iPhone photography, many of which do not sit well with the exhibition's overall cosmic dimensions, although Utah (2017) is an exception, a large - scale recreation of a smartphone snap taken from a moving vehicle, prefab houses blurred and telegraph poles smeared into digital glitches across the desert mountains.

«Moreover, I would say again to him... that if he really wants to give some kind of gesture to the community through this prefab, pre-gentrification installation, that his money is better spent toward the community, donating it to community groups that are doing this.

In this regard, her use of disparate patterns, prefab decorations and a variety of framing devices point toward abstraction's forbidden pleasures, and in so doing, her paintings ask us to examine how we think about the production of aesthetic difference.

The New York Times does a disservice with its title «A Prefab, Short on the Fab» and its litany of complaints.

We do go on about «less is the new more» and «living with less is the key to sustainability» and often get criticized for showing modern prefabs that cost $ 400 per foot.

In our recent post Prefab Passivhaus CLT Tiny Homes being built in Britain, I described how the modules were completed in the factory right down to the floor finishes, but wrote, «Note how at the end the exterior finishes are done on site, which avoids a lot of problems.»

But besides doing wonderful furniture, in the sixties he tried his hand at modern prefab, and some of the ideas are relevant to today.

One of the reasons TreeHugger has loved prefab so much is that by doing things more than once, an architect gets to work out the bugs and get it right.

While we love the idea of prefab housing that doesn't leave a footprint on undeveloped land, the Loftcube is heavy on wood and plastics, with no indication that they're sustainably forested or produced.

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.

Daniel Libeskind does modern prefab with the first of the Studio Series, a 515 square metre (5,500 square foot) number that Libeskind claims is built to «the highest level of sustainability in the world.»

If quick, cheap, and energy - and waste - reduced building isn't enough to sell prefab to you, there's more: we're beginning to see that prefab builders go out of their way to tell you exactly what their packages include and what they don't (compare the Flatpak house) so there aren't any surprises from the contractors.

I used to believe, as she still does, that «Prefab is intrinsically green» but don't any more;

Because of the fixed costs of overhead and the crane, at a thousand square feet it is almost impossible to do a prefab as cheaply as site built.

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

Do some research and you'll find that MODERN prefab homes are VERY expensive per square foot.

Prefab homes are a great solution when looking to build fast, and now there is another awesome option to do so on the market.

I'm sure expensive prefab walls weight less than what I can build with 2 × 4 plywood faced walls, but either way I analyze it, there is a TON of glue involved that I don't want to be forced into a relationship with.

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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.

In the regular prefab biz, designers do everything they can to make the house look conventional, often at the cost of efficiency and cost - effectiveness.

Photos of the prefab houses are gorgeous, to be sure, but they are shot so you'll notice the house's integration with nature - and forget perhaps the fact that in these particular homes you'd be car dependent for every other thing you do besides sit at home.

If modern prefab is going to catch on it has to be affordable, and the way to do that is to maximize the efficiency.

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.

FCR partnered with one of the most experienced prefab builders in the world, SKANSKA, to start FC Modular in the Brooklyn Navy Yards that would change the way construction is done.

Meet ÖÖD, a gorgeous prefab abode that doesn't compromise privacy for stellar views.

Todd Saunders via Arch Daily More Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen in TreeHugger BlueSkyMod Prefab Cabin Tommie Wilhelmsen's Kolonihagen Summerhouse And we didn't show this in TreeHugger but you must see the Aurland Lookout

But our legal needs don't always slot nicely into prefab boxes.

The initial phase of buying a prefab will include lots of research, which means doing some online investigating into companies and styles, talking to architects and developers who have experience with prefab houses, and meeting with local contractors.

Whether it's a traditional prefab or a modernist example of factory - made housing, there are a number of ways prefab can be done.