I have been walking by AODBT’s office for the last couple of months and I was anxiously awaiting how it would turn out. As a resident of a Saskatoon core neighborhood, I was excited to see a firm like AODBT make an investment in the community. As the exterior of the building got closer and [...]
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One year later
A friend of mine asked me the other day if we had any regrets about purchasing our cabin last summer. The discussion revolved around the size, the restrictions on use, and the idea of the being permanently anchored to one place for vacation. The Size There are four of us using under 300 square feet. [...]
All new materialicious
materialicious™ has been relaunched with a new design. materialicious™ is a visual curation site featuring residential architecture and design, craftsmanship, materials and products and has long been one of my favorite sites on the web. The new design is a big departure from the old Typepad hosted site but after a couple of days of [...]
The upside of down
This is a great photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters of unused shipping containers piled up at a storage depot in Hong Kong. The Chinese government is looking for places to store hundreds of thousands of unused containers expected to flood Hong Kong in the coming months due to China’s slow exports. As long time readers [...]
The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
Over the years I have become a big fan of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company designs and what Jay Schafer is doing there. Not only does Tumbleweed design great homes, I have really come to appreciate their website. It is an excellent design with a great CMS and uses web services like Flickr really effectively. I [...]
Alpine Barn
materialio.us has a great post about an abandoned alpine barn made into an avalanche proof cabin in Evolene, Switzerland. I love architecture like this. Taking an amazing little building that has long been part of the local landscape and repurposing it into something different yet keeping the original charm.
The Church in an Age of Scarcity
A couple of weeks ago Jason Evans started to post about the recession and the church which started me thinking as I was reading Howard Kunstler’s excellent book, The Long Emergency (Wikipedia summary – Full text available on at Google Books) for about the third time. If you haven’t read it, you need to. I [...]
The world’s first billion dollar home
It is actually costing $2 billion Atop six stories of parking lots, Antilla’s (photos) living quarters begin at a lobby with nine elevators, as well as several storage rooms and lounges. Down dual stairways with silver-covered railings is a large ballroom with 80% of its ceiling covered in crystal chandeliers. It features a retractable showcase [...]
The rustic re-use cabin
I live this a lot and it only cost $15,000.00 so far to build. Paul Stankey (of hive Modular prefab fame) and his brother Scott (and their wives) have (almost) completed the container cabin they’ve been building on their family property in northern Minnesota for the past nine years. Cost so far: $15,000. Readymade Digital [...]
