Inhabitat put together a video featuring NYC firm Lot-ek talking about shipping container architecture. There’s some great stuff in this. I love seeing the rendering of stacked containers homes that are offset to provide an overhang covering a porch on one end, and an exposed terrace on the other, similar to what I did in my design.
There’s a new (kind of fast-moving) slideshow on LVL Homes from around the country on Rocio Romero’s site:
http://rocioromero.com/LVSeries/index.htm
Note that one of the featured models is in Maine.
Treehugger suggests building codes be updated to balance the ‘bigger is better’ mentality with efficient solutions that offset consumption.
Grassroots Modern shares my enthusiasm for container homes and points to a model in Atlanta, GA.
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Via Inhabitat/Prefab Friday:
I had previously written about the hunt for a modern crib for our son Jack. We were in a crunch, finding nothing we liked in furniture stores, and daunted by the prices for the beautiful options we found online.
We had ruled out IKEA after a visit before Jack was born. There were two options then, one not our style, one woefully shakey. The web site currently features a new array of options, none available until the new catalog comes out unfortunately.
We decided to give up and buy the TASSA crib, which we’re thinking wasn’t in the store back then. Jack’s wardrobe is TASSA and our TOVIK bedroom furniture is pine as well. Someday that’ll be Jack’s.
I have to say: We’re pleased. This thing doesn’t look much different than many of the options we considered online. It was $139. A mattress was $39. We can drop the slats down a level when he’s bigger, and turn it into a toddler day bed. We had called about ordering and shipping it last week rather than make the 45-minute+ drive down through Boston to our nearest store, but shipping was more than the crib itself as it qualified for freight. So we used the twine a la IKEA and secured it to the roof racks of our Focus wagon.
I think I’d try a DIY approach to these rather than the $90-240 they’re going for, but a really neat concept, in pendant and bucket styles:
http://www.greenlightconcepts.com
via Inhabitat.
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