This 398-square-meter (approximate 4000 sq ft) German home combines some of the best aspects of the traditional German mountain farmhouse and the Western Stick brown shingle design – so popular in the United States – with modern materials and engineering. Germany’s LP Architektur built it in six months and finished primary construction in 2008.
Prefab + Wood in Texas
This is the living room of a "prefabricated, sustainable design-build project by the College of Architecture, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University."
Mission Hills Development in Northern California
"Mission Hills Development builds finer homes that
are based on the Arts and Crafts movement from the early 1900’s.
Featured architects are Henry and Charles Greene of Pasadena, CA.,
circa 1900 to 1920."These are indeed "finer" homes – finer, by far, than most of the new development I see, and at first glace at least look to be far better designed and constructed than even the chicest McMansion.
Sebastopol, CA – "the World in upheaval" is the site of Mission Hills
Development’s current project. Situated on 5 acres in a valley between
rolling hills, this 6200 square foot house is part Gamble House and
part Blacker House. Build with the same detail as these two famous
Greene & Greene homes in Southern California, it encompasses five
different hardwoods for its central hallways and grand rooms.Blog Cabin: a Tennessee log cabin, DIY Network style
Reader Amie Kershbaum writes to tell us about an interesting take on reality TV, coming to the DIY Network this coming August 16. Over the past several weeks, that television network gave watchers and visitors to their website the chance to vote on the design of a traditional log / timber cabin; the construction itself is viewable now as a time-lapse video, and starting on August 16 (at 9 pm EST/PST), the entire design/build process will be the subject of a new series hosted by Amy Devers, who was not very happy about the bugs she was told she’d encounter during the filming out in the back woods of Tennessee. Blog Cabin will run through September 27.
