Home Factory

Not sure if this is new to the market or new only to us though they sound well established with a good client base, especially in the social housing arena. The company is Home Factory (linked below.) Their philosophy is exactly the same as ours. They question why high spec housing is still being built in fields and not factories. Their comment that one wouldn't build a car in a field so why a house is entirely valid. Property is after all more expensive, a huge investment and a lot of people are spending their lives paying off a mortgage for a decaying inefficient, high maintenance Victorian house which was quite likely thrown up with little regard to quality. Home Factory's website state, quote: 'Home Factory wholesales homes directly to organisations wishing to develop land and can work in a number of collaborative ways. The costs are competitive with traditional build and the on-site time is up to 40% quicker.' They go on to say how every unit is checked prior to leaving their factory.

Take a look at some of the decaying Victorian andEdwardian housing around you and ask "Is it time we did away with gluing baked mud together with goo? We argue that brick-built housing is drafty, difficult to heat, uneconomic and contributes to global warming. We look forward to the day large amounts of these decaying Victorian properties are flattened and replaced with modular prefabricated factory built units as they do in Scandanavia and Japan.

Visit the website at http://www.home-factory.co.uk/

For further details contact Home Factory by email us or call them on 020 8960 1103.
Postal Address: Home Factory. Unit 225. Canalot Studios. 222 Kensal Road. London. W10 5BN.
Company MD: Alex Grossman and Warren Johnson.


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Penthouse in Wandsworth

This might interest you all out there. A roof-top penthouse development for a private client to be built in Wandsworth, London. Designed by Martin Markcrow Architects who have received planning permission for a new two-storey penthouse to be located above an existing four-storey building on Wandsworth High Street, London. The project is supported by English Heritage. The donor building is a 1920s building and there is a Ferrari showroom on the groundfloor. The penthouse is designed at 2,400 sqf and will be prefabricated by a modular construction company in Slovenia. It will be transported in five modules and craned into position over 2-3 days with all connections made to services during that time.

For more information visit World Architecture News

Architects: http://www.markcrow.com/

RIBA Stirling Prize Winners 2006

Congratulations to the Richard Rogers Partnership - Madrid winners of this year's RIBA Stirling Prize 2006 shown on Channel 4 for their design of Madrid Barajas Airport. Read more here:
Channel 4 RIBA Stirling Prize 2006