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...Prefab housing. The very name conjures up boring little boxes that might be cheap but hardly chic. But now a whole range of sleek, modular factory-built designs are hitting the European market. The cutting-edge domiciles are quick to assemble, energy efficient and fitted with cool customized features. Here's a peek at some of the more intriguing prefab abodes and holiday hideaways. THE LOFTCUBE - STUDIO AISSLINGER www.aisslinger.de Inspired by Berlin's postwar high-rises, the Loftcube can be craned or helicoptered onto your rooftop as an open-space pied-à-terre or office. The "personal home container...
...China's big ski resorts are clustered in the country's impoverished northeast. While some American ski-resort towns boast film festivals and fashionable clothing boutiques, the village houses near Lotus Mountain are made of blocks of mud mixed with straw, and the only hotel accommodation is in flimsy, prefab lodges. Donkeys porting bundles of firewood for sale roam the village. Given the rustic environment, Lotus Mountain markets itself as an ecotourism destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting?as do the parents...
...China's big ski resorts are clustered in the country's impoverished northeast. While some American ski-resort towns boast film festivals and fashionable clothing boutiques, the village houses near Lotus Mountain are made of blocks of mud mixed with straw, and the only hotel accommodation is in flimsy, prefab lodges. Donkeys porting bundles of firewood for sale roam the village. Given the rustic environment, Lotus Mountain markets itself as an ecotourism destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting-as do the parents...
...hour south of the Great Salt Lake, a two-lane blacktop crosses a cattle guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
...finish, kitchen, bathroom, storage, built-ins and lighting. Next, Lazor Office (whose only existing prototype is Charlie Lazor's Minneapolis, Minn., residence, although the firm is building 20 more across the country) will customize them to fit your space, even taking into account climatic and solar conditions. Finally, the prefab firm Empyrean will piece it all together...