We've been following the modular/manufactured home idea, wondering if they will get to the point that they'll look the same as a stick-built house. Here's the latest: Hat tip to Natalie for the text-alert on the crane showing up today!
Building houses with more user-friendly features is gaining traction:
An interesting debate here between home builders in Malibu, and the Coastal Commission. The designers and builders insist that they have taken great care in working with nature, and think the Coastal Commission should allow these types of projects, because only five...
Ideas for those who are thinking of building, or just afternoon eye candy!
From the Charlotte Observer, via Piggington: Where do you begin a tour of a $2.45 million house? You begin outside, near the front of a wooded, 2-acre parcel, where a stone-bedded creek carries pumped water from the front fence down to an elegant koi pond. It's one of...
From http://www.blueskyhomes.net/ Pricing for turnkey, site-engineered, custom, high-performance Blue Sky Homes ranges from $220 to $320 per square foot. Your actual price will be based upon a number of factors, including location, size of the house, site...
Poised on a timbered ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, this 6,000 square foot residence is organized around a two-story great room reminiscent of a grand lodge. The interior features natural Douglas fir timber construction and a massive Columbia river basalt...
A modern house on view property with 3,800 SF of living space and a 925 SF detached garage. Primary materials include concrete, steel, and glass. A concrete wall up to twenty-four feet high organizes the site and the house: the garage, entry and service spaces are...
Hat tip to Kingside for sending this along, after seeing the video on the 6-day construction of a Chinese office building - from the WSJ, dated June, 2009: A nearly finished, newly constructed building in Shanghai toppled over, killing one worker. As can be seen in...
