03/06/2021
How Los Angeles is bringing high design to the granny flat — while saving time and money
Los Angeles has launched a program with over a dozen preapproved designs from top architects for backyard dwellings, cutting the bureaucracy for needed housing.
08/27/2020
The Tyee continues its focus on tiny homes.
As Tiny Homes for Homeless Flourish Elsewhere, They’re a Hard Sell in Vancouver | The Tyee
City staff dismiss the model, shown to be warmer and safer than tent cities, and ‘a bridge’ to stable living.
08/19/2020
As you know, we've been pushing this idea for years, everywhere we can. We have a team ready, willing and able to jump into this. Who has the will, locally, to get on with it?
If We Care about the Homeless, We’ll Build Lots of Tiny Homes, Fast | The Tyee
Many US cities are showing us how. Vancouver and other BC cities can’t pretend they don’t know a solution.
02/25/2020
First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design - Harvard Graduate School of Design
The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology, and begin to see biodiversity as a building block of urban environments. Julia Watson’s lush and meticulous new book, Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, provides a blueprint for sustainable archi...
10/26/2019
Some photos of our completed build of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency deckhouse: a 500 square foot off-grid residence with sustainable systems also designed by Germaine.
07/20/2019
Coverage of our current building project.
Cates Park ‘Blue Cabin’ becomes floating artist residency in False Creek | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Cates Park ‘Blue Cabin’ becomes floating artist residency in False Creek Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
06/30/2019
We're currently building the deck house for the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, hitting the water later this summer: https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/art-seen-the-blue-cabin-launches-this-summer-as-floating-artist-residency-in-false-creek
11/22/2018
Good summary by Michael Geller of the range and status of smaller housing forms discussed at the Small Housing Summit.
In unaffordable Vancouver, we need to start thinking small
Small is beautiful. This was the theme of a recent conference organized by Small Housing BC.