#prefabricated

[keepingitneutral]

Ibiuna House, Ibiuna, Brazil,

Rodrigo Ohtake Architect,

Manufactured by sysHaus,

Paul Clemence Phottography

[thesaurushouseofdesign]

“Kocher Canvas Weekend House”,

Fort Salonga, Northport, Long Island, Suffolk County, New York,

Built betwwen 1933 and 1934 and demolished in the 1950s.

This house was designed by the Swiss-born architect Albert Frey for his friend A. Lawrence Kocher.

It was based in a previous project made by him for an experimental weekend house.

The house had three floors: the ground floor was used to park up to two cars, being free and open due to the use of steel beams to support the house.

The first floor was accessed by a spiral staircase on the back of the house and had an open space configuration at its interior, with curtains that moved through a rail system and could be used to divide the space.

The top floor was the house's rooftop, being accessed by the same spiral staircase as the first floor.

As the name indicates, this house was made of canvas. Marine canvas was stretched horizontally over a redwood frame, insulated with aluminum foil, and nailed, painted & sealed.

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CBR Building, Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium - Constantin Brodzki & Marcel Lambrichs

Prefabrication and Formal Boldness in Belgian Modernism: The Story of the CBR and LH 187 Buildings in Brussels

Discover the story behind two iconic Modernist buildings in Brussels.

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

"Cadenza staircase"

NEST building’s STEP2 unit in Dübendorf, Switzerland,

Created by ETH Zurich and ROK Architects,

It reimagines concrete construction with 3D-printed formwork and dry-joint assembly, this helical staircase comprises 16 prefabricated steps, each connected without permanent binding materials, allowing for easy disassembly and reuse.

Reinforced with post-tensioned memory steel, the design minimizes material use while ensuring durability, embodying NEST’s commitment to sustainable and experimental building techniques.

[mensministry]

PEBL Grand, Hungary

Courtesy: Hello Wood

[vintagemanhattanskyline]

The 25-story Colgate-Palmolive Building. 300 Park Avenue between west block between 49th to 50th Streets. Emery Roth & Sons, architect, 1954-1955. View looking southwest from 51st Street. Early, 1957.

Photo: Samuel H. Gottscho.

Source: Progressive Architecture, June 1957.

Today, on the blog "Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York", we travel back to the period between 1954 and 1955, when three of the first skyscrapers with prefabricated aluminum facades emerged in Manhattan, all located on Park Avenue: 99 and 460 Park Avenue buildings, along with the Colgate-Palmolive Building.

https://historiadelosrascacielosdenuevayork.blogspot.com/2025/03/1954-1955-edificios-99-y-460-park.html

[gallopintoni]

Prefabricated structural members such as these beautiful Andiroba wood roof trusses showcase the incredible range of our skilled craftsmen, who can apply the same level of artisanship no matter how small or big the work is.