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...died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive who oversaw construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England; in Bosham, England. His leadership helped the project survive a series of political and financial crises before the 50-km tunnel finally opened in 1994. DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered an elegant interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Best known for the light wood Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 U.S. states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became...
When Becky LaChance and Jarrett Rice move into their new home in Benbrook, Texas, this fall, it will look like no other house on the block. Designed by renowned architect Michael Graves, who is also known as the creator of teakettles and toilet brushes for Target, it will feature a bold, angled roof, dormer windows and a country-cottage feel reminiscent of 19th century architect Andrew Jackson Downing. Aside from its traditional style, there are several major differences between this and other Graves homes. Designed as a "kit house," it was crafted in a factory owned by Seattle-based Lindal...
Forget boxes on wheels and tacky subdivisions. Prefab is now just plain fab. Once the poor stepchild of residential construction, so-called systems-built housing is now the province of topflight architects, who are reinventing the genre with innovative designs, new building components and environmentally friendly approaches. In September, Lindal (2003 sales: $50 million) begins offering two versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders...
...prefabricated-housing market, which includes panelized, manufactured, modular and precut, to rise to roughly $11.8 billion by 2007, up from $9.5 billion in 2003. (And, yes, that includes trailers and double-wides.) Interest is already beginning to grow--among both consumers and investors. Rocio Romero, 32, an architect from Perryville, Mo., has sold five of her Laguna Verde (LV) kit houses, which are priced at $31,050. Andrew Reid, a sales manager for Countrywide Home Loans in Woodinville and Chelan, Wash., says he has been swamped with inquiries since Kaufmann's Glidehouse was featured in Sunset magazine. "I had several...
...Architect Henry Hobson Richardson designed many of Harvard’s most prominent buildings, including Sever Hall in Tercentenary Theatre and Austin Hall on the HLS campus, during the late 19th century...