

Musings on Deco Revival Apartment
Art Deco constitutes perhaps the last time America was hitting on all eight cylinders, strange as it may sound to say about a period in...
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Florida House with L shaped courtyard
The temperate to hot climate of Florida makes for year round outdoor living. Here is a design with that in mind with pool, spa,...
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Midway Gardens Square
Frank Lloyd Wright a little more than a century ago, created the wondrous Midway Gardens on the site of the former San Souci amusement...
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Concept For A Florida Home Development
Key Takeaways: Long and Narrow Layout Entrance Moved To Side One Side Of House Windowless To Create Private Courtyard For Adjacent House...
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Homeless shelters NO. Microhousing YES.
The whole theory of modern 'homeless shelters' is radically unsound. Its time to ditch it in favor of micro-apartments. VRT proposes a...
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More Ideas on Shelters
A relatively new design in metal buildings reworks the truss so that two moments are carried on two sides rather than one moment being...
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The Homeless Shelter of the Future
The homeless shelter of the future must be reworked from the sprawling grid of cots completely devoid of privacy to the cubicle with...
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It's Time To Redesign The Suburbs
In the traditional suburban development you subdivide your land into lots and put each house in the center of the lot. The front yard...
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Deluxe Suburban Refuge w/ Pool & Storage
In a previous post I tried to devise an ICF suburban home suited to the urbanite seeking suburban refuge. In this post I develop a new...
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Refuge In Suburbia
A constellation of factors is driving people out of cities and into the suburbs. At the same time the old 'builder' produced 'luxury'...
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