They Built an Affordable PREFAB HOME that’s 650 Square Feet with 2 Bedrooms!

Designed in 1957 by Buff, Straub, & Hensman for the Frank family, this historic home has a starring role in the Amazon series “Transparent.”

STUDIO BLUECERIGO This new photographic agency wants to be a place of diffusio
and creation as well as a place of life in its own right. For the
sake of integrating daily rituals of guarding into complex
working hours, a large part of the space is dedicated to the
children of promoters and collaborators. The original space has been completely restructured to create
an open and versatile place. The addition of shutters to the
openings allows to modulate the natural light, inherent to the
photographer’s work, according to a device that is both simple
and aesthetic. The space is fragmented by the implantation of “place-
objects” which reconfigure the full and the empty spaces to
offer unusual visual breakthroughs compared to the relatively
modest scale of the places.

Pouaka Waikura emerged from the story of the relationship the owners had with an early settlement…

There was a time when every street corner had a tiny shop; a local store where everyone went to buy groceries, supplies and pretty much anything else they needed. The shops were part of a large house with the owner living above and running their business on the ground level. Today, such homes are becoming […]

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