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• INTERVIEW: With Bridgette Meinhold, Author of ‘Urgent Architecture’

  
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  When Inhabitat’s Architecture Editor ,  Bridgette Meinhold , heard about the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the massive devastation it caused, she wanted to help, and was drawn to start investigating different options for temporary shelters and disaster relief housing. This exploration gradually broadened to a ...
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• Perkins + Will’s Prefab Sprout Space Classroom is a Healthy, Green Learning Environment

  
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  Approximately 7.5 million students in the US are taught in more than 300,000 portable classrooms . Many of them are outdated. Sprout Space offers an alternative to yesterday’s portable classrooms. Created by Perkins + Will ‘s award-winning K-12 Education design team, Sprout Space uses cutting edge green ...
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• SEED at Living Future

  
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  Event Date:  05/15/2013 - 11:00am - 06/18/2013 - 12:00pm Event Location:  Vulcan Real Estates South Lake Union Discovery Center 101 Westlake Ave N Seattle , ...
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• WFH Sustainable Prefab House by Arcgency

  
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  Copenhagen-based architectural office Arcgency have designed the WFH House, a prefab building concept. The sustainable design is based on the Nordic values – flexibility, build for people, reliable solutions, materials that age gracefully, access to nature and greenery, minimalistic look and playfulness. The ...
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• Night Enginge – I’ll Make It Worth Your While

  
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  Far more people need to listen to NIGHT ENGINE. I would say they sound like David Bowie singing with Gang of Four, feat. Nile Rodgers on guitar – what a [...] Visit www.bushwah.net for the whole story.
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• Updated Apartment Block From ‘60s Wins Prize

  
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  Is there any form of architecture more universally reviled than the residential urban renewal “projects” of the 1950s and ‘60s? Once thought to be a modern cure for the scourges of city slums, these stark, nearly identical towers appeared worldwide but became new symbols of urban blight and neglect in less than ...
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• So Many Advantages to Modular Houses

  
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  For more than 100 years, modular homes have been promoted by designers and entrepreneurs for their efficiency, speed and affordability . However, modular homes have remained a niche market, and many homeowners still do not entirely understand modular housing. A modular house is constructed in sections in a ...
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• Live // Top 5 Green Modular Homes(OR The Sexiest Mobile Homes You’ll Ever See)

  
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  Lately, Mark and I have been dreaming about buying a little piece of land and putting up a prefab home. But don’t mistake what we mean by “prefab,” the days of the double wide are long gone.  Not that there’s anything wrong with a double wide — actually I spent my first few years in existence in one while ...
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• The Milan - One Bed One Bath Prefab Modular HomeThe Milan is a...

  
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  The Milan - Prefab Modular Home The Milan - One Bed One Bath Prefab Home The Milan - Prefabricated Modular Home The Milan - Living room with built in entertainment unit Beautiful bath with featured modern vanities View of living room - The Milan one bed one bath modular home Kitchen View - ...
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• The Sarah House Project Will Provide Shipping Container Shelter for Low-Income Families

  
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  Jeffrey White, a real estate agent who resides near Salt Lake City, Utah, is spearheading the Sarah House Project , a nonprofit, community-based organization that aims “to provide fast, green minded, safe, affordable homes for the underserved.” Built from converted, recycled shipping containers and named for ...
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• Simple Prefab Elegance in Üsslingen Switzerland Home

  
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  Constructed of prefabricated timber on a foundation basement of pre-cast concrete, this 300 square meter single family home integrates the topographical setting of a hillside slope on the edge of a quaint Swiss village in the Kanton Thurgau. Residents enter into the living area of the home from the top floor to ...
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• The Prefab Promise

  
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  Prefab is hot these days. Promises of lower cost, higher sustainability, better quality and faster construction make it worth exploring for the prospective home builder. Can prefab deliver on these promises for you? We had high hopes for prefab when we started thinking about home building. Article after article ...
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• Lanefab’s Rainwater Recycling Highbury House is Topped With a Rooftop Garden

  
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  The 20th & Highbury laneway house is a new infill mini home in Vancouver that was built by Lanefab for a couple with an interest in urban gardening . The project features rooftop gardening beds adjacent to the south-facing second floor balcony, and it integrates a 700 gallon rainwater storage tank to provide ...
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• Shower Anywhere with Cove by Oborain

  
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  Debuting at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, Cove is a new outdoor shower by Oborain , makers of Fjord, the original pre-fab outdoor shower. Inspired by traditional beach houses from the Eastern seaboard, Cove is constructed of cedar clapboard. The cedar will change color as it ages, turning a ...
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• Big Lessons From the Tiny House Movement

  
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  Have you heard the buzz about the tiny house movement or seen one moving down the road toward its new (semi) permanent home? If not, chances are you soon will. (See also: McMansion to McCottage: Why Smaller Houses Are Smarter ) The tiny house movement is a social movement in which people voluntarily reduce their ...
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• Meye Mind – Fatness

  
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  Ahh, wonderful. MEYE MINDs video to their afro-f/p/unk workout “Fatness” looks and feels like the VHS tape of a basement live rehearsal of some upcoming 80s Band. Front Woman Louise [...] Visit www.bushwah.net for the whole story.
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• Built by One Family in One Day: $6K Prefab Abōd Shelters Last Thirty Years

  
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  A new model for prefabricated homes, Abōd® Shelters , is making a difference in South Africa, and designers hope that this solution can be made available to people around the world who suffer from poverty, homelessness, or are displaced by natural disasters. Recently, a community of Abōd Shelters was ...
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• Shipping Container Inspired Sauna is Prefab Relaxation in a Box

  
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  Yet another creative manifestation of the shipping container, the Sauna Box from Castor  is entirely self-sufficient, getting its electric power from solar panels and heat from a wood-fired stove for sustainability. An insulated 96” cube of sculptural corten steel (it is not a true shipping container), the ...
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• Sarah House Project

  
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  Named after a San Francisco sculptor who could not afford a permanent place to live in her expensive city, the Sarah House Project in Salt Lake City, Utah is one man’s attempt to build an affordable home out of castoff shipping containers. Sara Putnam, (the “h” for the project had already been added to a ...
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• Building the perfect fortress in Camelot Unchained [Updated]

  
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  Filed under: Game Mechanics , Interviews , PvP , Dev Diaries , Sandbox , Crafting , Housing , Camelot Unchained , Player-Generated Content , MMORPG The Camelot Unchained team has just released a new video dev blog for Kickstarter backers outlining some fairly ambitious plans for mining and ...
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