Tag: Small Spaces - Page 8
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Your Office is In Your Pants: 6 Trends Shaping The Way We Work
In 1985, in the Harvard Business Review Philip Stone and Robert Luchetti foresaw in 1985 at the birth of the wireless phone that the era of the that you went to and sat at a desk was over; they noted that Your
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Friggebod Fun: MiniHouse From Add-A-Room
So much of what we build is a response to regulation; from garden sheds to modular homes, it is the rules that define the forms. Swedish Housing Minister, Birgit Friggebo exempted buildings under 150 square feet from the building codes;
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Plant Room Clips on to Existing Apartments for Food and Energy
Think of it as a garden shed for the high-rise: Plant Room is a clip-on room that provides a bit of green space, hot water, rainwater collection and even a worm farm for the apartment dweller. We covered it briefly in March, but the designers have
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Signal Shed: A Tiny, Affordable, Off-Grid Getaway In The Woods
Ryan Lingard Design Ryan Lingard designed and built this lovely litte cabin near Joseph, Oregon in a couple of weeks for under $10,000. Preston at Jetson Green tells us that it has a wood stove, metal roof, cedar rainscreen, reused windows, portable
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Astonishing Transformer Furniture (Video)
Transformer furniture holds a lot of great promise: multi-function furnishings that really do multiple things well, thereby saving space and resources. But I'd wager that most of the designs we see do more to tingle the imagination than offer true
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EcoFabulous Prefab House Up For Auction Today
A one-of-a-kind, cozy green designer home was unveiled Friday at the 2010 Dwell on Design conference in Los Angeles. It's up for sale - fully loaded - at an
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AIA/HUD Awards Show that Good Design Isn't Just for Rich People
So many of the prizes for architecture go to gems that cost serious money to build, for people that have serious money to pay for it. The AIA/HUD awards are different; they recognize "excellence in affordable
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There's No Recession in the New York Times Homes Section
The rich are different from you and me; they read the New York Times Home and Garden section on Thursdays, and don't seem to know that there is a recession. But they are beginning to deal with the concept of living with less,
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Garden Shed Home Offices Sprouting Up in UK
The backyard-shed-as-home-office idea is catching on in North America, but it is nothing compared to what is going on in the UK. There, they are being promoted as turnkey solutions that reduce commuting, save money for companies, and are being offered
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Vancouver's EcoDensity Program Produces an Explosion of Small Green Modern Design
It takes guts to make change happen, and some cities have them, others don't. In Vancouver, they changed the regulations to permit housing in back lanes, calling it EcoDensity; it is a carefully crafted bit of legislation that protects views
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Micro Hotel Pods for Passengers Who Need a Break (or Something More)
Airports aren't very restful or a lot of fun, particularly when you have a long layover. Enter Dream & Fly: they offer "small luxury rooms with a complete bathroom, offering a new type of comfort, reduced to the essential, and at low cost prices."
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Every Parent Will Want this Green Modern Doll's House with Working Solar Electric System
Create your own scenes from Unhappy Hipsters with the Brinca Dada modernist doll's house; these days most people can only afford a house this big anyways. Hoping to be the Joseph Eichler of the doll house biz, Douglas Rollins hired young
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Loftbox 101 Puts Your Apartment in a Box
Rainer Graff of Atelier Graff is clearly a minimalist, and thinks if you have a big loft that it should be open and flexible. He asks "How can openness and generosity of the loft floor plan be maintained during everyday use?"
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MEDcottage: A Hospital Room in a Shed for Your Backyard
The Reverend Kenneth Dupin just wants to make it easier for people to take care of aging adults and keep them close to home; he has developed what is essentially a hospital room in
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Clunker Buses Transformed into Hip Bed and Breakfast Hotels in Israel
We may send old clunkers to the junk yard here in North America, but one family in Israel
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Shipping Container Housing by Intermodal Design: These Guys Are Good
A couple of years ago Paul Stankey built a little cabin in the woods outside of Duluth, Minnesota, out of a couple of shipping containers. It is all over the web these days and all over the country too; Analee Newitz at i09 puts it in
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Aqua: Terrific Looking Sustainable + Low-Cost Home Prototype From Brazil
Even if green architecture is usually 'good architecture' that can be applied to any construction, it seems the household projects that carry some sort of certification are usually aimed at the high income segment.
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Living With Less: Home Office Folds Up into Suitcase
At some point, people who work at home should be able to put their office out of sight, out of mind. Japanese designer Toshihiko Hazama has designed a slick aluminum office-in-a-suitcase that folds and locks up neatly to only 52 cm (20.4") thick.
