Offbeat Homes

August 14th, 2008

De Maasberg

UArchitects converted the De Maasberg, in Overloon, Netherlands from a prison to a beautiful juvenile detention institution. Here, where I live, you don’t meet kids in trouble, who live so well, or at least in a structure so nicely designed.

The goal was to surround the kids with nature - a concept that worked very well […]

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May 19th, 2008

The Take Out Menu of FlatPak Homes

We haven’t seen much prefab recently, but we should. Although it’s not normally favorite type of home, I’ve been having these new found feelings for prefab lately. That said, I think we should visit with FlatPak; I mean, if you’re going prefab, why not order from someone who makes it as easy as ordering a […]

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September 8th, 2007

When Offbeat Girls Go MIA…

They like to leave you with a little link love to tide you over.
This blog could use some serious blogroll revision. I need to do some adds, remixes, and sadly some cuts (but mostly adds). Thus I’ll be using my time at this blog this weekend for boring housekeeping tasks and am going MIA here […]

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September 6th, 2007

The WIRED LivingHome Installation

So, lame me; I’m a day or so late in reporting this but for some reason I thought the post I read about this project at CNET said that the WIRED installation was happening next week. I was so excited and then later felt this sinking sensation that I had speed read too quickly. […]

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