COOL MATERIALS: MDF

Through multiple layers of innovation, Interlam – an architectural surfacing company – is adding some serious sex appeal to one of the more banal materials we call upon for everyday

PREFAB REHAB

With prefab housing garnering a lot of attention from the press lately, some people are beginning to cry “fad.” Archinect’s Mason White has written a great post on the burgeoning

PREFAB FRIDAYS: Rocio Romero’s LV Home

Many of our readers have commented lately that some of the recent prefab, modular, and kit housing projects that we have written about do not address real living – whether in the context of

KILLING WINTER BLUES WITH MIRRORS

Doctors decided some time back that the “winter blues” deserved a scientific diagnosis, and they dubbed it Seasonal Affective Disorder, which has the most appropriate acronym ever: S.A.D. This

NEXT GENERATION WALLPAPER

Though there is certain kitsch appeal in moving into a house full of super-retro and vintage wallpapers, it doesn’t always work unless you really intend to play up the dated quality of the colors

LINKED HYBRID HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

The urgent need for dense housing in China due to a booming economy and the displacement of many residents who resided near the Yangtze River dam leaves little room or time to design creatively. In this

STUDIOBILITY’s INNER BEAUTY

We love the clever use of negative space in Studiobility’s gorgeous Inner Beauty tables. While the outsides of these pieces have a generic, rounded-rectangle look common to a lot of modern

STUDIO1AM Cork Cuff

Although we’ve seen plenty of furniture and housewares made out of recycled cork, we were pleasantly surprised to come across Studio 1am’s recycled cork jewelry. Who knew that cork could make

STUDIO1AM Industrial Bloom

At Inhabitat, we are always on the hunt for unusual new materials, as well as novel uses of old ones. Recently, we’ve been spotting some very original contemporary jewelry from creative designers

AUSTRALIAN PREFAB

COMPETITION: Designing the Future of New Orleans

Architectural Record, in partnership with the Tulane School of Architecture, has announced two International design competions to propose new housing for New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

ANEMONE TABLE

PREFAB FRIDAYS: M-VIRONMENTS

Michael Jantzen’s work transcends modern design. A m-lange of space-age sculpture and tinker-toy experiment, Jantzen’s buildings and houses span a vast range of functions and architectural

PREFAB FRIDAYS

With the new year, we’ve decided to try a new theme for Fridays. Since we seem to have a steady stream of stunning prefab crossing our radar, we thought we’d make Friday our day for featuring

ROOF-TOP FARMING IN LONDON

There’s a fabulous article today on BLDGBLOG, about roof-top farming in London. Being both an avid green-roof fan, and a former London resident myself (and remembering those miserable grey days)

LIVING GLASS

We like to keep tabs on a diverse range of aesthetic styles at Inhabitat, but if we had to categorize our general leanings, we’d probably say we have a penchant for modern-organic: clean, minimalist

BIOWILLIE!

This is a little off-topic for Inhabitat, but we since we love Biodiesel and Willie Nelson – we couldn’t resist: Willie Nelson, the 72-year-old braided country-western star, has recently

H-HAUS

H-Haus is taking a new look at prefabrication with their “Assembled Concept” – a process which utilizes pre-manufactured pieces that are designed to be assembled on site, reducing

READYMADE: How To Make {Almost} Everything

The best gift I received this year for Xmas was the ReadyMade book: How to Make {Almost} Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer. Thanks to my generous sister, I now hold the secrets to creating chandeliers

INHABITAT LOVES BUCKY

Who doesn’t love Buckminster Fuller – the utopian American architect, designer, philosopher and inventor of the Geodesic Dome? We thought we’d engage in a little shameless self-promotion

THE EPICENTER in Boston

In spite of the many long-term payoffs, the initial financial investment in building green can be a prohibitive factor in many cases. Sure, Ford Motors can hire green-building superhero, William

WIRED on PREFAB

Wired magazine has a great new piece on prefab in their latest issue. The article covers some of our favorite leaders in the prefab movement, including Michelle Kaufmann for her Glidehouse, Jennifer