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Quality Home Design Meets Mass Production

Posted by: Geoffrey Singer
Thanks to: Geoffrey Singer
16 March 2004 - 10:00am

"What if you could actually afford to buy a house by award-winning architects?"

Mass production has made it possible for almost anyone to afford a well-designed car, piece of furniture, or computer. Now Kohn Shnier Architects has partnered with home builder Royal Homes to provide Canada's first pre-fabricated modernist housing. Lisa Rochon explores how the design and philosophy of this new factory-built housing solution is "more Le Corbusier than trailer park".

Full Story: Building modernism on a pre-fab budget
Source: The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2004
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