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Architect creates carbon-positive prefabricated home

MELBOURNE: Architect Bill McCorkell describes his latest house as like “a fridge, fully sealed”.

The 75-square-meter home looks sleeker than an overturned Kelvinator and is, Mr McCorkell says, one of the world’s first carbon-positive prefabricated homes, hence the need for its

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Interest growing for tiny homes

CLEVELAND: The tiny house movement is taking off as people look for cheaper and more sustainable ways of living, an advocate for the small buildings says.

Bevan Thomas built his own tiny house from scratch last year and had seen “hundreds” through it over the Read More »

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Micro apartments need unique interior design to win boomer market

DALLAS: The boomer market wants apartments with a point of difference.

“They don’t want to just walk down a generic corridor that leads to their front door,” said the architectural editor of Seniors Housing.

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The tenth entry for the seniors housing Global Award for 2015 has been received.

The 18 hand built open-air homes built out of bamboo on the slopes of the Ayung River near Ubud in Bali, have had strong appeal to the over 50 ex-pat Read More »

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