An archive of our old posts.
More container related architecture!
architecture and hygiene - addiction: "what is the quik house?
The QUIK HOUSE is a prefabricated kit house designed by Adam Kalkin from recycled shipping containers. It has three bedrooms and two and one-half baths in its 2,000 square foot plan. The shell assembles by the end of the week, you will have a fully enclosed building. From start to finish, it should take no longer than three months to complete your house."
You can probably blame Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash, but I think containers are fast becoming a new obsession for me! Sites like this don‘t help, especially when they become linked in my mind to artist’s communities and workspaces.
Welcome to The Container City Website - The original modular building comapny: "Container City is a highly versatile system of providing stylish but affordable accommodation for a range of uses made from shipping containers. The concept was devised by Urban Space Management.
Containers are an extremely flexible method of construction, being both modular in shape, extremely strong structurally and readily available.
Container Cities offer an alternative solution to traditional space provision. They are ideal for office and workspace, live-work and key-worker housing.
Container Cities do not even have to look like containers! It is a relatively simple matter to completely clad a building externally in a huge variety of materials.
Finally the benefits of Container Cities can truly be seen in short and medium term land use projects. Short-life sites can have Container Cities that simply unbolt and can be relocated or stored when land is required for alternative uses."
We have some buildings that are over 50 years old! (but we thought we'd knock them down)
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Good cookery site with loads of recipes and article on things like knife skills, and useful kitchen tools.
a la carte: “Good knife skills are a combination of knowledge and practice—the knowledge of which knives to use for which tasks, the knowledge of how to hold and move a knife, the knowledge of how various foods are structurally composed, and many other little bits of knowledge. This knowledge is only part of the equation. Many hours of practice make up the other part.”
Cut the costs before you cut the cake: "Cut the costs before you cut the cake.
If you‘ve got a wedding to plan and you don’t have a royal budget, follow Laura Brady's top 10 cost-cutting tips
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I don‘t know whether it’s because amongst my friends and acquaintances there are a huge number of weddings this year, or because it‘s 10 years for me and Bex this year and we’ll be celebrating with a big party / renewing of vows, but this article struck a chord!
(Via Guardian Unlimited Money.)
I now have accounts with Flickr and Del.icio.us … what will be next in this ilk?
Decided that I‘d enable comments - it’s lonely around here! Besides it‘s not hugely difficult to moderate them. Maybe I’ll see if I can install a spam filter on them too.
10 Current Favourites:
Wifi rabbit: "
Nabaztag (means 'rabbit' in armenian), the small rabbit can access the net. The colour of the little spots on its belly changes depending on the weather, car traffic or reception of emails... you decide. Nice, nice, but wait! It also plays tunes and moves its ears according to those variables. Plus, it communicates with other rabbits located elsewhere thanks to a coded language you can create (like: a specific posiiton of the ear to show that you’re busy… ) .
Made by French company [Violet](http://www.violet.net/index.jsp), should be sold in France later on this month for 95 euros. Worldwide???
Via [Nicolas](http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/04/08/nabaztag-a-wifi-rabbit-as-awareness-tool/).
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(Via [Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women]().)