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Cellophane House by KieranTimberlake

Environmentally-savvy and forward-thinking architecture firm KieranTimberlake Associate has high hopes of bringing customized prefabricated homes to the masses starting with their new Cellophane House.  As one of the five full-scale prefab productions at MoMA’s exhibit, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, the Cellophane House is the latest iteration of the firm’s research and investigation into new fabricating processes and sustainable customized homes. The firm’s goal is to make Read more [...]

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Home Delivery

There is something delightful about the Museum of Modern Art’s new prefabrication show Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling that opened on July 20. On an empty lot west of the museum, future home of Jean Nouvel’s Tour de Verre, five full-scale contemporary prefabricated houses have been built, creating,  as curator Barry Bergdoll put it, “the world’s strangest subdivision.”  It’s a rare sight to see single-family houses in Midtown Manhattan and rarer still to see something Read more [...]

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HOK Sports elegant tackling – Landsdowne Road stadium

HOK Sport, with Scott Tallon Walker, is transforming Dublin’s Landsdowne Road stadium while responding to local constraints Taking shape across the skyline of Dublin is the transformation of the city’s Lansdowne Road stadium into a state-of the-art sporting venue for rugby and football. The site’s existing constraints all had to be borne in mind in the design for the new stadium. There are railway tracks and underpasses to the west, a culvert to the north, and training pitches that had Read more [...]

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