Quality Home Design Meets Mass Production
"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".
Thanks to Geoffrey Singer
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Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 in
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