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This page has a great series of videos explaining some of the projects showcased in the exhibition, "Home Delivery."

Tags: moma, prefab, housing, manufactured_housing, modular, exhibitions on 2009-01-07 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Portal page for a number of outstanding in-progress prefab/ modular housing projects.

Tags: architecture, prefab, modular, housing, manufactured_housing on 2009-01-07 and saved by 12 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Andrew Blum's article describes Cellophane House, a 5-storey prefab going up in Manhattan at the corner of 53rd and Sixth.

Tags: prefab, wired_magazine, andrew_blum, architecture, nyc on 2008-10-03 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (3) -About

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Brief article by Andrew Blum about Oxley Woods, a development of "90 eco-friendly homes, with 55 more planned to fill its seven acres." The key aspect? They're all pre-fab, relatively cheap to build, can be built quickly, and have in-built green features.

If Canada had a federal housing plan/ strategy, this would be something the Feds (and the Province) could take a closer look at. It sounds like it could be a reasonable (if partial) solution to our affordable housing crisis.

Tags: andrew_blum, wired_magazine, prefab, green_buildings, green_technologies, oxley_woods, affordable_housing on 2008-05-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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- brief article on St. James's Village in Gateshead, UK, which is Britain's first "village of flat-packed homes" "assembled from kits made using the BoKlok concept" and Ikea.

Tags: affordable_housing, boklok, housing, ikea, prefab on 2008-02-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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