Big Box Residential
According to
this article Target has commissioned Michael Graves to make prefab:
Ubiquitous designer Michael Graves is offering three prefab "pavilions" of varying degrees of modernity through Target. Costing $10,000 to $26,000, the customizable kits are produced by Lindal Cedar Homes and can be used as offices, guest rooms or what have you.
I'd much rather live in a big cmu retail box. One day all those Wal-Marts and Home Depots are going to be empty, and then certain architects are going to want to turn them into homes, the way they've been trying to do (for years) with shipping containers. Another idea I have is to lease out vacant shopping mall retail space as residential. Ever look at just how deep those mall stores are (including storage)?
Huh, I just noticed this nytimes article today,
Shopping on 1, Sleeping on 2. Some eyepopping examples of residential-over-massive-retail.
Oh, this reminds me, someone ought to survey the Duane Reade's in NYC. (1) There seem to be way too many to be profitable. (2) The layouts are downright Piranesian. There's one by my place, on 86th, that feels like walking through a small intestine.
* Ray, 8/19/2004 10:57:46 AM
