Someday, the practice of lugging materials to a building site and constructing the structure right there from scratch could go extinct. Why? Prefabrication and modularity are transforming the industry ...

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Local firm Saxon Hall Architecture designs a modular, off-grid communal building for a coastal campsite in Tasmania. Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people ...

Five years ago, while driving cross-country with his 11-year-old son to install the first cabin in his new prefab building venture, Andrew Kelly passed a smallish log cabin — the kind sometimes used ...

Near Helsinki, expat designer Jussi-Pekka Kajaala and olympic medalist Adam Rippon build a tiny summerhouse dedicated to Finland’s favorite pastime. There’s a particular kind of longing that comes ...

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