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- indubitably, on 04/20/2009, -2/+38from this distance, your profile pic kinda looks like the article's screenshot.
- Quickdood, on 04/20/2009, -2/+36All slide shows should be like this, each picture doesn't open a new page therefore when I hit the back button I am back to digg. Nice.
- DirtyVicar, on 04/20/2009, -3/+31"The couple also built much of the home's frame off-site .... keeping total construction costs to $1.5 million,"
Okay, ***** this article. Environmentally-sound, sustainable construction examples that only millionaire yuppies can afford? - Richandler, on 04/20/2009, -8/+35These look as if they are all done by the same designer.
- artinge3, on 04/19/2009, -15/+36I'm so tired of these cold hard steel and concrete space bunkers. I thought we already surpassed the whole minimalism, space age technology *****. Show me something new!
The future lies in our past with renewable building materials, like wood or natural rock. I would see more beauty in working with the natural elements rather than concurring them. We should be pass this by now. - Duffle, on 04/20/2009, -2/+23I like #10.
- erix84, on 04/20/2009, -2/+18"This house is made from five recycled shipping containers and cost less than $200,000 to transport,"
Wow, under $200,000 to live in some old shipping containers without windows, carpet, wiring, or pretty much anything else you'd want in your house. Sign me up for 10! - jordanau, on 04/20/2009, -2/+16"Man who live in glass house dress in basement"
-Confucius - FrozenPie, on 04/20/2009, -7/+21those "award winning" designs are pretty ugly if you ask me
- FrozenPie, on 04/20/2009, -0/+13what has been seen
cannot be unseen - inactive, on 04/20/2009, -2/+15#4, I was previously unaware of the intermediary step between normalcy and homelessness.
- feenstrovski, on 04/20/2009, -4/+13Wow how uneducated you must be. Architects are the backbone of 90% of the commercial construction out there. The work here is representative of only a few Architects working in a certain style. Its a tough job involving many components of organization of trades, manufacturers etc. It's not just pretty pictures.
And how do you know it is impractical? Most of the time a large projection serves as solar shading assisting in passive solar design, or material choice is due to weather patterns of a region.
I once was told it takes a architect to appreciate architecture.
In other words your too stupid to understand it all. - DeadPanDan, on 04/20/2009, -0/+9Or all picked by the same committee, more likely.
- xadhominemx, on 04/20/2009, -0/+7The list got a little soft in the middle, but finished strong, IMHO. I especially enjoyed the texture of #9's exterior, and the sweeping embankment on #10.
- Thekirby45, on 04/20/2009, -1/+8The only one I would live in is number 10
- mohrt, on 04/20/2009, -1/+7With obvious opulence on the outs, the winning AIA homes offer a glimpse of the styles and features that might appeal to homeowners of the future. Many incorporate eco-friendly ideas: solar panels, radiant heating and "daylighting," the practice of maximizing natural light while reducing glare and heat. Another theme was the celebration of hardy, maintenance-free materials like stone, steel and copper, and reliance on locally available resources.
"These homes have been given awards because they challenge conventional notions of what shelter is," says Mr. Workman. - navidb, on 04/20/2009, -1/+6one picture and a tiny sentence describing it really helps us see why it won /sarcasm
- scarth, on 04/20/2009, -1/+6too funny
- FlyingCaveman, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4I know he's not taking a structural engineering class.
- michaelrpina, on 04/20/2009, -1/+5Or you can have links open in a new tab. Its better that way.
- smemily, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4When did pitched roofs go out of fashion? Jeez, I know flat roofs are so modern and all, but as someone who lives in a flat-roofed house, for maintenance sake they actually suck.
- mmembrino, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4number 7 is uggllyyy. 10 is ***** awesome design-wise. The coolest one (because it's "cheap" and easy and useful in stark situations) is the shipping container one. If people could use that for budget housing down in New Orleans or tent cities in California it would be fantastic.
- smemily, on 04/20/2009, -2/+5"I once was told it takes a architect to appreciate architecture."
If it can't be appreciated or at least enjoyed by the average person, it's not really architecture. Unlike some other art forms, architecture does have to function on some level or it's just art. - UbIwerks, on 04/20/2009, -3/+6Needs more boxes.
- hangglide, on 04/20/2009, -1/+4He could have built a conventional house that didn't heat up like a hot box for a little more than half that figure.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3There are actually people who don't use tabs these days?
- swicepick, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2How could you possibly judge the designs as impractical without seeing the whole house inside and out (rather than just one exterior photo), and more importantly, without asking the people who live in it if they find it practical or not?
- Peko, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2Yeah, but did you see the used shipping containers? In this economic climate we have to be thinking about affordability and 5 used shipping containers turned into a house(?) can be yours for only $200k.
- hangglide, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2Do you know that you can still ask a question or express exclamation with only one punctuation mark?
- >mark, on 04/20/2009, -3/+5engineers > architects
haha :) - smurfsahoy, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2200k for old shipping containers with corrugated roofs is preposterous.
- smurfsahoy, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2That's the ONLY one I like Kind of James Bondish. 6 is similar but more boring. The rest are pretty hideous. Especially the one that looks like a ***** old wooden house that a blind family added 3 or 4 makeshift additions onto.
- Tubal22, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2no doubt. you can buy some studs and drywall for a lot less than $200k.
And probably be nicer to the environment. - gdha, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2Beautiful houses! I'd live in pretty much all of them.
- ryan850, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2Only $200,000 for 5 storage containers!!! that i can live in... in the heat of texas.... wow what a deal I'll take 10
- Factionrider, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2#4, i wouldn't even want to live there if I was homeless >.<
- brian78347, on 09/20/2009, -0/+1They're all ugly; perhaps with the exception of #9 and #10. But as for the rest, I wouldn't live if any of them even if you paid me to.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1Yes, but then these people probably didn't either. Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings may have problems, but unlike most of these, they look ***** good.
- Brooks007, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1More on the shipping container house http://www.container-life.com
This is the best of the 10. - hoghug, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1The use of recycled materials here is pretty innovative. Not unlike the way the poster reused commas again and again in the post title.
- MrRtd, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1Looks to me like anyone who can draw a square could design most of these. Nothing award-winning about them.
- krete, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1or all the pictures could just be on the same page and all i have to do is scroll down
- Brooks007, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1sorry for the double post...
More on the shipping container house http://www.container-life.com
This is the best of the 10. - spiralspirit, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1I suppose its a question of embodied energy. You could of course build something from wood, which would require energy to be planted, grown, cut, milled, transported to site, constructed, and eventually taken away when the house was destroyed. Or you could take a relatively strong frame that is already in existence and waiting to be destroyed and is basically manufactured to be cheap to move, spend a small amount of energy furnishing and customizing it (you would have had to furnish and customize the house as well), and you will have used a lot less energy, overall.
- smurfsahoy, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1They should have been able to build that for like 60,000
- darthjure, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1Looks like squares are in vogue and privacy is not.
- smurfsahoy, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1#8 looks like a run of the mill elementary school.
- swicepick, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1Where does it say anything about the homes being a representative collection of housing for the average person? I think the houses were selected for innovation and bold creative steps in design--both of which usually are not cheap.
Besides, I'd rather see someone paying an architect to design something innovative and expressive with $1.5 million, rather than the same old McMansion crap. - swicepick, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1All it says is that the shells are made from shipping containers. There is nothing that says there are no windows, carpet, or electricity.
- feenstrovski, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1List of famous engineers:
wait.... never mind....
List of famous architects:
where do we begin?
haha ;) -
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