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Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., construction methods, home design. on Feb 28th, 2008
I write here fairly often, but my main job is with the bosses over at www.theplancollection.com, where I answer questions about residential design and construction. I received an interesting email the other day. It was a slightly critical young man who claimed that all the designs on our website were “old school” and […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Feb 15th, 2008
useful + agreeable house by Atelier Tekuto is available exclusively through useful + agreeable (www.ua.tv).
useful + agreeable (u+a) is a multimedia company that specializes in travel and design. Their purpose is to “present a useful + agreeable world.” As part of their quest, they have recently paired up with Japanese architect Atelier Tekuto to bring […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Jan 30th, 2008
CNET reported on a paint under development by researchers at Rice University and City College of New York. The trick is an ancient remedy that my unlce used to swear by (and probably still does). It’s silver. Nanoparticles of silver, to be exact. The trick is to insert these tiny particles […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Jan 7th, 2008
I just read an interesting article about New Urbanism, a movement against sprawling cities and our dependence on the automobile. The philosophy claims that we can retrofit our cities into denser neighborhoods where all of our needs, or most of them, can be within walking distance. This includes work, school, shopping, […]
Posted in Green Building Info., construction methods, home design. on Dec 14th, 2007
John Brown, founder of the Slow Home movement, is fighting to slow down the housing process. His enemy is the cookie cutter neighborhoods that focus on quantity and speed, not quality and sustainability. Think of it in terms of food. The Slow Food movement was agaisnt the Fast Food industry […]
Posted in Building Technology, home design. on Nov 26th, 2007
I’m stealing from other bloggers here, but the house was simply too awesome not to comment on. It’s an Aatrail house. That means that it is the opposite of a traditional house with an atrium. In this house, you drive under one side and enter the house from the atrium. The […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Nov 16th, 2007
Straw Bale homes have been a hot topic lately. Their R-value is outstanding, and they are quite earth friendly given the rapidly renewable resources they use: namely straw and clay. I checked it out (google straw bale houses or house plans) and was pleased to find plenty of sites willing to share the […]
Posted in home design. on Nov 9th, 2007
Looking for some cool new housing ideas? Want your home to stand out from the rest? Check out this article we came across yesterday. Featuring seven unique houses from a custom built home that is upside down, to a home shaped like a toilet. I can’t say i’d like to live in most of these, […]
Posted in home design. on May 22nd, 2007
Having designed and built several of my own homes has ben a blessing, but a curse. A blessing because I have been able to design things according to what I like and not have to settle on the closest matching house plan in a plan book. A curse because I can’t settle for a plan […]
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