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...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 Cedar Homes and shipped to its destination on a truck. Unlike typical Graves houses, which can easily cost $1 million, LaChance and Rice's 2,000-sq.ft. prefabricated abode will be completed for well under $300,000, including...
...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 for his 2,000-sq.-ft. Quik House kit made from steel and shipping...
Inspired by the Sears, Roebuck mail-order homes that sprang up in the early 1900s, "designer prefab" spans a number of highly nuanced--and often confounding--housing categories. Variously described as systems-built, modular, panelized, kit or manufactured, prefab homes are constructed at least partially in factories before being transported to building sites. There they can be assembled quickly, sometimes in a matter of days. While most of the new-age houses in a box have yet to be mass-produced, an expected rise in interest rates and a public hungry to meld good design with low cost will make...
...even ask if you can shop for her. At home she likes a chicken or turkey sandwich for lunch. If she eats at the country club after tennis, she usually finishes only half and saves the rest for dinner. (The doggie bag is the senior citizen's medical-supply kit...
...Bombs aren't the only weapons Abu Sayyaf uses. "They are setting up an urban assassination squad called Fisabillilah, or 'The Path of God,'" says Kit Colliers of the Australian National University in Canberra, who has written a detailed report on Islamic militancy and terrorism in the Philippines for the International Crisis Group. Security officials in Manila say half a dozen alleged Abu Sayyaf operatives arrested in June for possession of materials for explosives were members of the squad. "Thank God we got them before the President's inauguration," says outgoing Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita, referring to Arroyo's swearing...