With the rising cost of construction materials, here’s a cheaper alternative of building homes made of… earth.
This is actually a project named Earth House from Erdhaus, a Swiss architect and team. The homes are built to live under or in the ground, but with it, unlike conventional homes. [link]
We’re still in the progress of writing and posting a few reviews from the weekend, but we’ll close the reviews for June. We didn’t do a wrap-up for May, so here it is all 7 reviews in the past 2 months.
We have a friend who used to stay in Wangsa Baiduri, and we used to go to his place for excellent dinner parties. This was back in the late 90’s and we used to really look forward to going to his place, it was a nice secluded corner of Subang Jaya, hidden behind SJMC, and the two hotels, with its own guardhouse and walking distance to that nice lake (Taman Subang Ria) with the beautiful view.
Well, anyway, things have changed quite a bit now. My friend has gotten married and moved out, but he still tells me that his parents are forever complaining about the construction lorries going in and out of their main road. Well, actually we think its isn’t all that bad, Road Builder have only just build their Boulevard project since then, but its actually ...
Well, as we often say here, every few months hardly ever passes by without a new launch at IOI Properties sprawling Bandar Puteri in Puchong. Actually, the launches are getting fewer and at longer intervals, probably due to the diminishing number of phases left on the drawing board.
This time round it is Primrose, a series of linkhomes located at the very edge of Bandar Puteri, opposite the now completed Bayu Puteri apartments. It is located in the same slightly elevated platform as the earlier phases Olivia and Nadia. It would seem that the entire zone of development precincts on the elevated ...
It’s happening, location is good, the address is prestigious, and if you go there for a drive around now, you can see for yourself how the implementation of the modern-chic town planning has been well executed. The different precincts are well laid out, and the landscaped Central Park district surrounding the lake has turned out pretty well. And most of all, we think they’ve captured the essence of modern design for the houses, like LeVenue, Zenia, Ridgewood, Adiva, et al. Well, actually, when you have 473 acres of freehold land, you pretty much do anything you want with it.
Actually, scrolling through the archives, we’re kinda surprised we’ve not done any reviews on Desa Parkcity ...
Sometimes it takes some just creativity and design finesse to make the most out of a need for space in a tight situation… and a magnificent design is born.
Original photo this Osaka cityscape taken from here.
We were in Old Klang road some weeks back, near the mega-junction leading to Mid-Valley, (i believe it was when we went to see Papillon in Taman Desa) when we saw the white, new bunting ads pointing us to make a u-turn to Residence One. We were very tempted to make another sales launch visit, but resisted the urge as we were hardpressed for time, but making sure we’d come back at a later date.
So last week, we came back to look for this new project, but this time we came from the direction of Taman Tan Yew Lai, and we found that it was actually much nearer to that end of Old Klang Road. The location is just opposite Pearl Point, right in front of Wisma Elken if you’re ...
Drove to Puchong the other day on the LDP the other day, saw this massive development under way at piling stage at Taman Wawasan / Pusat Bandar Puchong.
The huge billboard announced that it was the much anticipated Setia Walk project, which we’ve been hearing a lot about in the last few years. Since completing the last phase of Taman Wawasan in the mid 90’s, SP Setia has been quite dormant in this part of Puchong. In the interim years, while the general area of Puchong has taken off in terms of population and area and also density. Other developers, especially IOI Property who have the biggest landbank, have been extremely busy.
According to the the press release, the project is described as follows:
SP Setia’s maiden commercial project comes in the form of the RM800 million Setia Walk, which is set to transform the Puchong area. Built on a 20.8 acre plot in the matured township of Pusat Bandar Puchong, the project is highly visible ...
You would usually only associate steel containers as temporary offices for construction sites and or storing materials at the ports, but they can also be designed into elegant homes and offices, with some imagination.
Weburbanist has an excellent article with more pictures. Check it out.
But probably in Malaysia, living in a steel box wouldn’t be so practical due to the heat, unless you want to have the airconditioning running all the time…
