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Hoteliers, You Can Create Destination Retreats With These Luxe Tiny Cabins

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Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar? Get in touch!

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They Built ‘The Woks of Life’ From Home. Now They’re Cooking Things Up From a New One

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The Leungs, who launched their beloved recipe site a decade ago and just released a new cookbook, have spent the last year transforming a New Jersey farmhouse into what they dub "The Woks of Life HQ." If their house was a person, Judy Leung tells me over dinner, it would probably be surprised to see her family living in it.

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Kevin O'Brien, Sky Hopinka, and layers of meaning in the landscape

Portland Architecture

Hopinka, who now teaches at Bard College in upstate New York, is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people of southern California. Sky Hopinka's 2021 film Mnemonics of Shape and Reason. . BY BRIAN LIBBY. In context, even seven generations is not that long.

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I Tested the Best Looking A/Cs on the Market

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For the first two summers I spent in my home in upstate New York , our lack of any sort of air conditioning was tolerable. We had a solid ceiling fan set-up and my other efforts to keep the house cool—drawing the blinds, making sure we had a good cross breeze going—were mostly successful. Well, yes and no.

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Utopian Communities: The Many Looks of the “Perfect” Place

Architectural Observer

Here we’ll look at several of the innumerable physical structures which have in part sheltered, continue to shelter, or will potentially shelter some of the “perfect” communities people have envisioned. New membership was achieved through adoption. The concept itself goes back at least as far as c.

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Driving "Abroad" from the US

Community Architect

The good news: One doesn't have to board a plane for the experience. North America's only persisting fortified city north of Mexico lies well within driving distance just a few hours north of the eastern US in a province that is more like a country with a size more than twice that of Texas.

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US Architecture News: American Buildings

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The Memorial was is implemented on a donated five-acre site in Newtown, Connecticut.