Sentences with phrase «prefab house with»

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.

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As one last collaboration, Ray and Charles Eames tackle prefab housing in LA, with colorful grids after Piet Mondrian.

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.

«In the Forest» at the Graham Foundation Coinciding with the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, David Hartt's multifaceted installation explores the connection between ideology, architecture, and the environment by revisiting Moshe Sadie's unfinished 1968 Habitat Puerto Rico project: a prefab concrete structure that was intended to provide some 800 low - cost housing units for the city.

As in other parts of the city, the latest version of white brick apartment blocks come in red or yellow brick with vaguely SoHo Revivalist fenestration; they spring up in Chelsea's plentiful parking lots so quickly you might think they are being laid in like prefab houses.

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.

The resurgence of modern prefab is presented as an alternative to new urban development — homes that are refreshing, honest and complimentary to their historical counterparts — considering their relevance to affordable housing and parallel with the green building movement.

Built with eco-materials and made for solar, wind, or geothermal power, the «glide» in the prefab house's name refers to both the wall of sliding glass on one side of the building and the bank of storage opposite.

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.

I always enjoy catching up with my friend Richard Pedranti at the North American Passive House Conference hosted by PHIUS, and he was at the NAPHN event promoting his new project: Prefab Passive House.

The Micro Compact house was the only pre-existing prefab to be included in the show, with its first American viewing.

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.

Prefab wood panels filled with the straw bales formed the frame of the house.

The best analogy to prefab houses is the Mini Cooper — mass produced but with enough options to let the owners feel they have a custom automobile...» Michael Pyatok, FAIA Pyatok Architects Berkeley, Calif.»... As long as housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perception.

Coincidentally on the day of another big earthquake, Metropolis picks up the story with an article by Karrie Jacobs, a prefab pioneer and the author of The Perfect $ 100000 House.

Lawrence Sass of MIT has been working with the idea of the digitally fabricated house for a few years; we first met him at Prefab Now two years ago, but it has evolved significantly since then.

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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.

Westchester's innovative process of creating prefab homes provides Rhode Island residents with a cost - effective solution to find the house of their dreams.

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.

BERGDOLL: If someone's sitting with a piece of land but can't afford a dream house, a prefab house may be the solution.

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