Canyon View Office Guest House | Kanner Architects

Kanner Architects has designed canyon view office guest house located on a lush hillside behind a main residence in Los Angeles, California. This small structure housing a psychologist’s office and future guesthouse is just a few steps away from home yet it feels like a protected sanctuary. This home office offers both privacy and convenience while enhancing the property’s value. It also can double as a guesthouse for visiting friends…

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Mid-Century American Houses

Product Description: In the first book of its kind, architectural critic Michael Webb and Esto photographer Roger Strauss III examine 35 extraordinary modern houses that have been restored, enhanced, or extended by new owners who see them as timeless classics. Built in the heyday of modernism, from the 1930s through the early 1960s, these houses were designed by exceptional architects for themselves or for adventurous clients. A few were lovingl…

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The great "Quon Modular" a prefabricated house design from Australian Architect | Andrew Maynard

The great “Quon Modular” a prefabricated house design for the near future that are now available for you, brought to you by australian architect, Andrew Maynard has made this prefab house design with an efficient approach in every aspect, the zero waste and high tech green materials application, no more bricks and studs. No more high cost ( expensive ), time consuming, and environment damaging onsite building. I wonder how this Quon…

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Wooden Prefab Houses in Thailand with Butterfly Roof

… houses are clad in locally harvested bamboo, and the material is woven using a traditional method on the front and rear facades that appears commonly in other homes and crafts done in the area. The iron wood construction is prefabricated and assembled on-site, using bolts to ensure reasonable precision and strength. Most of the materials is delivered by the Karen National Union on the Burmese side, and this dependency on tropic timber has led to…

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Hariri and Hariri Houses

Hariri and Hariri Houses Product Description: Since starting their practice in 1986, Iranian-born, American-educated sisters Gisue and Mojgan Hariri have earned widespread praise for their ambitious body of work. Their up-to-the-minute recasting of classical modernist principles has made them a source of continuing inspiration to design students and professionals alike. Over the course of recent years, the Hariris’ portfolio has expanded fr…

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