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New Skinny House Floor Plans

January 4, 2010

In anticipation of our Skinny Project groundbreaking this month we have finalized the floor plans for our newly introduced model . . . the (aptly named) SKINNY. This sleek, simple beauty is designed for lots under 16 feet wide (a common Philadelphia condition), and represents our most efficient interior plan to date. Oddly, it also [...]

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Final Pictures from the Philadelphia Passive House

December 18, 2009

The Philadelphia Passive House is about to pass into the possession of its new owners. We held two final tour sessions of the home yesterday which were very well attended. Thanks to all of you who came out. Between tour sessions I took some final pictures, and while I may be adding to these over [...]

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100k House: Render to Reality

May 27, 2009

Other than some landscaping and touch up paint the homes are finished, and I am personally very happy with the way they turned out. They make a bold, interesting statement from the outside, a statement which demands either awe or insult (we have received both personally). The homes are also nicer on the inside than [...]

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First of Final 100K House Photos by Sam Oberter Photography

May 5, 2009

The 100K House project is nearing completion at the end of the month and we have begun taking final professional photos. ISA and Postgreen have hired Sam Oberter, a local professional architectural photographer, to shoot all final photos of the project. We got a bit of a head start last week due to a few [...]

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A Tribute to May Narisaranukul’s Work on the 100K House

January 19, 2009

Obviously, as evidenced by this blog, there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make the 100K House project come to fruition. The research that Nic and I do is covered in detail, but the work of our key partners is not always captured in the same manner. The architects on the [...]

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Why Modern?

January 6, 2009

When writing posts here I often try to address those questions that arise regularly. I do this in hopes that it will lessen the frequency of a question or give me a complete, pre-composed answer to which I can direct a questioner. Unfortunately, it never seems to work out quite that way. Those asking the [...]

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The Cost of Polishing a Turd

December 16, 2008

In an interview a few weeks ago I was asked what our premium was for building LEED Platinum. The reporter had done some research and found that the highest level of LEED for Homes usually carried a 15-20% markup and wanted to know what the added cost was for our project. It was a difficult [...]

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ISA Takes Four Honors at AIA Philadelphia’s Awards Banquette

October 22, 2008

We are very proud of our architects, Interface Studio Architects (ISA), for taking away four awards at last week’s Philadelphia AIA Awards for Design Excellence. The first award is the 2008 Philadelphia Emerging Architecture Prize which they will be accepting tonight at one of the closing events for the Design Philadelphia series. The event is [...]

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The Small Bedroom Philosophy

October 14, 2008

“The big house represents the atomizing of the American family . . . Each person not only has his or her own television — each person has his or her own bathroom. Some of these houses are literally designed with three playrooms for two children. This way, the family members rarely have to interact. And [...]

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Next Steps for 100K

July 1, 2008

The 100K team is starting to work on the next steps for what we are now calling a brand. Below is a sketch from one of our first meetings on the subject. Use the comments below to add your thoughts as to what we might have (or should have) in the works next.

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