“BRINGING SUSTAINABLE, STYLISH LIVING TO A 19TH-CENTURY CLASSIC, JEFF KING & CO.’S SAN FRANCISCO REMODEL IS INFUSED WITH DAYLIGHT, ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS, AND LOW-MAINTENANCE UPGRADES.”
Our client, Jeff King & Company, was featured in Ecohome Mag. Here’s the full article.
As a prototype for future Big Dig architecture, the structural system for this 3,400sf house is comprised of steel and concrete from Boston’s Big Dig, utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials.
Although similar to a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements were designed from highway components.
Highway components. An off-ramp to be specific.
Most importantly, the house demonstrates an untapped potential for the public realm: with strategic front-end planning, much needed community programs including schools, libraries, and housing could be constructed whenever infrastructure is deconstructed, saving valuable resources, embodied energy, and taxpayer dollars.
The building includes nine bedrooms, two family rooms, a family kitchen and a private dining area, a family library, a game room, a study, a public reception area, a formal dining room, a ballroom, chapel, 21 bathrooms, a swimming pool, two guest suites plus indoor private and guest parking.
Is this for reals?
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This beautiful house is located in Portugal. The Lisbon-based Pereira Miguel Arquitectos not only built the house but built the dunes around them.
Just amazing.
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New bike graphic process offered by Geek House Bikes called sublimated powder coat.
It basically allows any digital graphic to be fused into a powdercoat.
Home buyers said they’d be willing to spend an additional $8,964 on a home if it could cut their utility bills.
Click here for an article in Newsweek that explains the boom in Green Architecture.
