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San Francisco's Smallest Legal Apartments Inspired by Airstream

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Smart Spaces, Small Space, Prefab Construction, Small Apartment, Small Home, Small House Movement, Space-Saving Furniture, Prefab, Built-in Furniture, Home Size, Patrick Kennedy, Urban Levittown, Tiny Apartment, Tiny Home, Smartspace, Video, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

Bay Area developer Patrick Kennedy wants to build the housing equivalent of the Smart Car. His SmartSpaces will be small -- just a couple hundred square feet -- and prefabricated.

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WATCH: 30-Story Hotel Built In Just 15 Days!

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Prefabricated-Home, Video, Green Architecture, Prefab, Architecture, Prefabricated, Broad-Group, Sustainable Architecture, Prefab Architecture, Arts News

Harnessing manpower like never before, Chinese sustainable building company Broad Group has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of constructing...

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Michelle Kaufmann: An Architect Driving Change

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shelter, Frank Gehry, Prefab, Architecture, Community, Michelle Kaufmann, Green Living, Denver, Sustainable, Impact News
Lee Schneider

It's useful to remember that architecture is for the most part a conservative profession. Innovators like Kaufmann are rare. Fewer than three percent of homes are actually designed by architects.

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Do a Latte Good: Investing in Social Change

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Daphne Zuniga, Architecture for Humanity, Prefab, Michelle Kaufmann, David De Rothschild, Eric Corey Freed, Ben Saunders, Do a Latte Good, Haiti Earthquake, Impact News
Cameron Sinclair

This year Architecture for Humanity turned ten. Its mission to provide pro bono design services to communities in need has led to more than 750,000 pe...

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Reduce, Recycle, Reuse: Dwell Showhouse's Ecofabulous Design (PHOTOS)

Ecofabulous | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, Dwell, Prefab, Architecture, Reuse, Slidehuge, Dwell Showhouse, Green Living, Green Design, Ecofabulous, Eco-Designers, Green Furniture, Interior Design, Green News

Guest post from Ecofabulous Ever since Jack Johnson turned "reduce, reuse, recycle" into something you hum on your morning commute, people have been ...

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Buy Your Very Own Completely Sustainable Home

nytimes.com | Leora Broydo Vestel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pre Fabricated Homes, Green Architecture, Prefab, Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Housing Crisis, Green Living, Sustainable Architecture, Sustainable Homes, Zeta, Green News

The company is aiming to become the first mass producer of what is known in green building circles as "net zero energy homes" - those that generate en...

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Building Green Cheaply

The New York Times | Michael Webb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Solar Panels, Green Living, Green Design, Green Architecture, Eco-Friendly Houses, Prefab, Green News

Thomas Small is an accomplished cook, so it's important for him to try new and exotic ingredients every now and then. When it came to the construction...

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Culture Zohn: Spaceship Earth: It's Not Too Late for Course Correction

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moma, Kieran Timberlake, Whitney, John Lautner, Buckminster Fuller, Hammer, Al Gore, Environment, Prefab, Style News
Patricia Zohn

How are we going to live in the rest of the 21st century and beyond? It's a big question, one that is becoming ever more urgent as resources diminish with few answers from our largely dysfunctional government.

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The Promise of Green Prefab

Lloyd Alter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Design, Green Living, Prefab, Homeowners, Housing Market, Green News
Lloyd Alter

The greenest thing about prefab is the design process. The conventional model of the architectural business is dead -- only the very rich can afford to hire architects to build one-off houses.

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