CLOSE AD ×

Modular ConstructionLatest Stories

a glassy tower built by assembly osm with mirrored curtain wall
Some Assembly Required

Construction startup Assembly OSM wants to marry digital twin technology with modular building

A passive house certified gabled home from plant prefab
Passively Prefabbed

Plant Prefab rolls out Passive House-certified modular homes

A katerra factory
Modular Investing

Softbank bails out Katerra and takes majority stake

modules on a beach, an example of prefabrication in an urban context
Encouraging the Unconventional

NYC Public Design Commission explores small-scale prefabrication potential in a big-city context

Roatán, an island, with timber housing on it
Towering Timber

Zaha Hadid Architects reveals a modular housing platform for Honduras

Colorful modular housing in Portland
Planting New Opportunities in the City of Roses

Holst Architecture completes color-drenched co-housing for low-income Portlanders

a school bus converted into a mobile testing lab
Testing, Testing 123

Firms turn to school buses, shipping containers for speculative COVID-19 testing hubs

illustration of a recuperative care village in los angeles
Healing Vibes

CannonDesign unveils modular Restorative Care Village concept in L.A.

an illustration of a neighborhood of modular homes in the uk, made by BoKlok
Chip off the Old BoKlok

IKEA’s modular home offshoot names a U.K. manufacturer

illustration of modern modular home on beach, with two intersecting volumes
Just In Time For Summer

Plant Prefab’s latest factory-built offerings are big on sustainability, Scandi vibes

a skyline view of Wuhan, the Chinese city formerly locked down
In Better News ...

Wuhan shutters all temporary hospitals as COVID-19 risk dissipates

small wooden building with floor to ceiling glass, a freestanding accessory dwelling unit, the LivingHome 10
AN ADU YOU CAN TALK TO

Plant Prefab completes its first smart accessory dwelling unit

A home with a green metal grid surrounding it, designed by Space Popular
Power to the Grid

Space Popular vaults brick and wraps a thin steel grid around a modular house in Spain

Aerial photo of a hospital built to hold coronavirus patients
Talk About Design Build

China opens 1,000-bed coronavirus hospital built in less than 10 days

Interior rendering of a space station capsule designed for Axiom
Out of This World

NASA taps a Houston startup to design a hotel for the ISS

wuhan
Kit of Parts

China is building a 1,000 bed hospital in six days to deal with coronavirus

Seattle at night
Fly Like An Eagle

Seattle debuts modular housing for homeless Native Americans

Aerial image of a four-room concrete house with a flat roof
Threaded Together

Zeller & Moye mixes up Mexican rural life with Casa Hilo housing prototype

CLOSE AD ×