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P. Palace of Castel Gandolfo; Palace of Venaria; Palazzo Albergati; Palazzo Annoni; Palazzo Belloni Battagia; Palazzo Borghese; Palazzo Brandolin Rota; Palazzo Capponi-Covoni
Lustron houses were mass-produced, prefabricated, enameled steel, houses developed in the post-World War II era United States. Lustron Corporation manufactured homes that were clad in coated steel panels [ 4 ] Over 2,000 homes were constructed during Lustron's brief production period, and they proved to be extremely durable with many still in ...
Possibly the first advertised prefab house was the "Manning cottage". A London carpenter, Henry Manning, constructed a house that was built in components, then shipped and assembled by British emigrants. This was published at the time (advertisement, South Australian Record, 1837) and a few still stand in Australia. [5]
Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue
The most popular Xanadu house was the second house, designed by architect Roy Mason. [4] Masters met Mason in 1980 at a futures conference in Toronto . Mason had worked on a similar project prior to his involvement in the creation of the Kissimmee Xanadu House — an "experimental school" on a hill in Virginia which was also a foam structure.
Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats's Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats .
The Ministry of Works created research institutes, standards and competition authorities that resulted in core building regulations. [citation needed]All approved prefab units had to have a minimum floor space of 635 square feet (59.0 m 2), and be a maximum of 7.5 feet (2.3 m) wide to allow for transportation by road.