South American firm MAPA has unveiled two new prefab modular homes. The modular designs each feature five units, but the final results are quite different.
Tiny living and prefab construction collide beautifully in this backyard guesthouse designed by Bay Area upstart Avava Systems. The home, however, does not come cheap.
Two Berlin-based architects are taking the tiny home movement to new heights with a prefab housing module that aims to transform cities. Cabin Spacey wants to add housing to a neglected part of the city core: the rooftops.
When one decides to build a home on a site with no power, water, or road access, going off-grid becomes not just an eco-conscious choice but a practical necessity. This was precisely the case with this new project on Australia’s French Island.
Here are five of the most prefabulous homes you can claim for yourself right now. They come in all shapes and sizes and show just how sophisticated the prefab house has become.
Traditional and clean-lined at the same time, the pitch-roofed house—or, in many cases, a whole "village" of them—has found modern popularity. Here's one built for a town devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
A major benefit of prefab homes is efficiency, starting from the speedy, precise construction process to the innovative green features readily built into the houses. Here's a closer look at five fab examples currently available for purchase.
Offering a glam option in the market of man caves and she sheds is Australian prefab pod maker Harwyn, whose product comes in four different sizes for maximum versatility. The color can be customized, too.
Since the 1960s, North Carolina's Deltec Homes has built over 5,000 prefab round homes. More recently, the company has launched a line of net-zero homes spanning a variety of styles, still hopeful that prefabs will one day go mainstream.
UK-based finance company L&G has entered the prefab market with a $77 million investment to create a massive factory for manufacturing homes and apartments.
Buying a home is riddled with decisions that make you ponder a future imperfect: Should you, for example, reserve space for a maiden aunt or aging grandparent? Two young Spanish architects have hit on a formula that may help answer those questions.
The two-story cabin, which was prefabricated offsite, shipped in on a single tractor trailer, and constructed in just two-and-a-half days, runs on a solar power system.
The latest offering from Portuguese prefab master MIMA Lab is a super glossy, minimalist tiny dwelling that seems to levitate off the ground. The inspiration? The sleek work of artists like Donald Judd and John McCracken.
Originally associated with efficient, mass-produced dwellings, prefab construction in 2015 was in fact a lot about the customizable and the high-end, delivering standout abodes in exotic locations and with aggressively high-tech or sustainable...
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Prefab fever is high as ever: fresh off news of $250K designer prefabs, we caught wind of another ambitious effort, this time hailing from Hong Kong. This new mobile prefab shelter concept, called the Alpod, is intended for use as anything from a...
For a recent project in the Stockholm suburb of Lidingö, local firm Franson Wreland puts a prefab spin on the traditional Swedish farmhouse. The three-bedroom home is entirely constructed of components built in a warehouse 260 miles away, but...
You may have seen Zaha Hadid's latest work: a dining pavilion that looks like an extraterrestrial open clam shell, unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach last week. What you may not know is that the 215-square-foot structure, along with another...
For a British couple who wanted to live among the birch trees, blue bells, and streams of the gorgeous New Forest National Park in southern England, a custom prefab mobile home was the perfect solution—and the only kind of new construction allowed...
With House LLP, a Passivhaus-certified structure erected on steep slope in the Collserola mountain range of Barcelona, Spanish firm Alventosa Morell Architects set out to prove that prefabricated housing can make winning architecture. Like a...
Just a month after we published our list of 10 must-play video games for architecture and design nerds, it might already be time to make an addendum. As it turns out, Fallout 4, the latest installment of a popular post-apocalyptic role-playing...
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