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Northern California home by Arcanum Architecture sprawls along verdant lot

April 26, 2017 John Trujillo 0

San Francisco firm Arcanum Architecture has organised the massing of this large home around trees overhanging a broad lawn. The residence is situated in the Northern California town of Atherton, where the site takes up the corner of a broad avenue and a side street. The long home, named Atherton Avenue, bisects the two-acre (0.8-hectare) property

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Cover uses computer algorithms to design prefabricated dwellings

April 24, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A technology-driven home-building company in California says it is “doing for homes what Tesla is doing for the car”. Cover produces customised, prefabricated backyard homes often referred to as accessory dwellings — touted by some as a way to increase density and provide affordable housing in growing metro areas. The small dwellings can be used

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1930s modernist Aluminaire House moves cross-country to Palm Springs

February 8, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A historic, ready-to-assemble metal home by noted modernist architect Albert Frey is moving from a New York storage unit to Southern California this week. On 9 February 2017, the Aluminaire House – which is currently disassembled – will be removed from storage in Long Island and be driven across America to Palm Springs, where it

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