September 2010
11 posts
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Modern dollhouses by Brinca Dada →
Me want! Very cool dollhouses for the Modernist in us all, with or without kids.
(via CO.Design: http://tinyurl.com/23zcnlz)
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A Blog about Michael's journey around Nepal! →
One of the Compound partners is spending the next 3 months in Nepal on a travelling fellowship. Follow along!
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>>The Nogg! →
I soooo love this!
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The Gross, The Bad, and the Ugly
Okay. We’ve been looking at buildings and houses for a few months now. We’ve probably seen at least a dozen, and folks let me tell you: it is not pretty out there. As with most things in life, especially New York Real Estate life, money buys you freedom and choice. And unfortunately, this is something we don’t have much of. Even by joining our finances together, the properties...
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Rural Studio →
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Compound loves this house by Reigo & Bauer →
(click post title for more photos, via Contemporist)
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We. Love. Red Hook.
posted by Katrina
September 3rd, 2006: John & I got married in Red Hook. John had been living here in Red Hook since he moved New York City from New Hampshire in 2000. I moved from Williamsburg to join him here in our loft in 2003.
As we planned our wedding event, Red Hook quickly became an obvious choice for location. We were able to rent the Brooklyn Waterfront Museum, a small-ish...
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Could Red Hook use a hemp-based house? →
Click the link for an article on www.hemp.org about all the various hemp-based building materials that are available.
Here’s another link to some hemp building info: http://tinyurl.com/27gzsng
Sounds good to me (or maybe I should say smells good to me): what do you think?
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PassivHaus (Passive House Institute US) →
PassivHaus is a super-efficient way to build that reduces the average energy consumption of a house by about 85%.
What is a Passive House?
“A Passive House is a very well-insulated, virtually air-tight building that is primarily heated by passive solar gain and by internal gains from people, electrical equipment, etc. Energy losses are minimized. Any remaining heat demand is provided by...