Stanwell Park Beach House

Published in Modern Architecture | On July 28th, 2010

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This modern holiday home, designed for both entertaining and family vacations, consists of three attached pavilions in local stone, timber and copper, overlooking Australia’s Stanwell Park beach and the Pacific Ocean.

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Upland: NP Lodge Inspired Home

Published in Modern Architecture | On July 26th, 2010

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Located on a secluded 25-acre property, this award wining project is a luxurious private residence integrated with the site topography, offering panoramic vistas of woodlands and meadows.

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Schröder House: 1920s Modernism

Published in Modern Architecture | On July 25th, 2010

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With the Centraal Museum in Utrecht celebrating the work of Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld, we’ve decided to take a quick look at his famous Schröder House. Considered an icon of the Modern Movement in architecture, to me the Rietveld Schröderhuis is an architectural manifestation of the purity of graphic design and stylistic modernity.

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If this unique piece of architecture doesn’t stop you right there, then I don’t know what will. It’s actually a small 3 x 3m prefab retreat, hidden inside a copper clad tower, offering panoramic views to the horizon. Featuring a rusty cube-like design with basically simple amenities, this house is referenced as ‘Permanent Camping’.

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Bill and Mary Griffith decided it was time to move out of their Dutch Colonial home and into their new weeHouse – a charming country prefab house, bordered by a stream on a quiet wooded lot in Cobleskill, NY.

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When viewed from one side, this wooden house in Saitama, Japan, looks like a country shed, with its simple box like design, white exterior and one small window that you simply cannot ignore.

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The simplicity of the beautiful Pine Forest Cabin is manifested both inside and out. With a small footprint, where two concrete walls cradle a simple box design, this modern 850 sq. ft. cabin hovers over the hillside, enjoying unobstructed views down slope and to the mountains beyond.

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This amazing prefab cabin is situated on an exposed location on 2883 m above sea level, surrounded by unspoiled and spectacular scenery, nestled between Switzerland’s Gorner, border and Monte Rosa glacier.

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Whether you are looking for a home office, a granny flat, a weekend retreat, a small home or a commercial project, Miami-based company Cabin Fever creates well-designed, affordable, prefabricated cabins of natural beauty, quality, and style. We spoke to Andrew Kelly, Founder and CEO of Cabin Fever, and learned that for him, prefab building was a natural step.

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One of the things we love most is plunging deep into the world wide web to find aesthetically pleasing prefab designs. Here is an interesting project by Brazilian designer Felipe Campolina. It’s called ECObitat – a proposal for a prefabricated modular system that can be transported and scaled, defining various living spaces and multipurpose areas.

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Located in Olive Bridge, NY, this modern house serves as a country retreat for an urban family. However, unlike any other typical vacation home, which is often simply a regular house built somewhere else, the architecture of this structure is bold and unusual both in space and form.

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Bar House: Valley Breeze in Aspen

Published in Modern Architecture | On June 21st, 2010

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Located on a deep narrow valley in Aspen, Colorado, the Bar House endures extreme winters while the sun reaches the bottom of the narrow valley only from the south.

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With an impressive portfolio of green prefab homes, Seattle-based company Method Homes focuses on sustainability, energy efficiency and thoughtful design – all wrapped up in their unique approach of “Down to earth prefab.™”. We spoke to Brian Abramson, Director of Business Operations and Co-founder of Method Homes, to bring you his point of view on prefab design and construction.

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This early 19th century New England farmhouse has been extended to accommodate a family of four with growing children. The new structure features a linear shape, only one room deep, with two glass facades hung on a post and beam structure, completed with a metal shed roof.

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