The Lightcycle via Core 77.

The dining area features a PH5 pendant by Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen, a T12 table by Hay, and Møller Model 77 side chairs. A 1960s rocking chair by Vladimir Kagan sets off the living area.

The kitchen and dining area benefit from the light that pours in from the glass wall. A set of Hay J77 chairs and a YES Crane Light wrap around the table.

Cut out Jabba (you'll have two identical pieces of fabric).

Pin the strips in half lengthwise, making sure that the right-side faces in (you'll be turning them inside out after sewing). You'll be sewing along the rough edge.

You’ll notice the design includes vintage-inspired teardrop rear side markers.

"We wanted the interior volume to be a single-clad entity," Finnell says on keeping accessibility and efficiency in mind. This main living space features the Aura Media Unit 77 from Design Within Reach, the Saarinen Tulip Table, and Tolix Marais A56 Armchairs.

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Carole and granddaughter Allison—–silhouetted against a glass door that pivots open to the front garden—–plot how they’ll prepare the family’s next meal at the kitchen island.

The couple followed permaculture principles for their garden, complete with a robust compost system. You’ll also find an orchard, native prairie grasses, and a winter pond on the land.

77. The horrors

The prefab design utilizes a pin foundation system that reduces the project’s carbon footprint by 77 percent, says Wittman.

We'll overlook Tom Wolfe's scathing critique of modernism and focus on the cleverness of this blog's one-liners instead.

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Take the pliers and fold the end of the aluminum over until metal meets metal. You'll need a little hole.

Each time you look in any direction you'll see something new. The streets seem to go on forever.

Look close and you'll see that alongside the power of sheer speed in a lot of the objects in this show, you'll also see a mounting paranoia and unease with the rise of the machine. Here the city appears noisy and chaotic, and who hasn't cursed a clattering workman first thing in the morning. Ah, but work must be done. This woodcut is called Man with a Drill, is from around 1935 and was made by the American artist Charles Turzak.

We'll be continually working on the landscape, keeping it as natural as possible,

Molecule Building SetA quirky gift from friends, the Molecule appeals to the science nerd in all of us. $77

Hansen employed danish masonry brick work and solid mahogany framed windows for his residential project, Two Ten West 77.

The symbol-perforated aluminum facade of José Cadilhe's narrow House 77 in Portugal. The metal shutters cover full-height windows. Photo by Dioniso lab/TASCHEN.

When the owner isn't in town, she'll list The Hive on AirBnB.

The carbon-negative prefab design utilizes a pin foundation system that reduces the project’s carbon footprint by 77%. “Climate change is both the biggest and most accessible issue we architects can influence,” says Wittman.

Architect Ben Koush’s home blends into the neighborhood—but walk inside, and you’ll discover how he played with space in the design.

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On the top floor, you’ll find The Boardroom, a private dining room that holds its own private bar.

The developer of a 61-unit apartment building in southeast Portland, Oregon, cleared 17 trees on the existing lot and trimmed a number of limbs from a 77-foot western redcedar.

Steph, Margaret, and their two dogs spent 2.5 years living in a 525-square-foot yurt on their 1.77 TK

“We wanted low maintenance,” says Szczerbicki of the home’s exterior, which was clad in cedar and oiled once. “We’ll watch it patina and go gray with time.”

This cozy property sits on nearly five-and-a-half acres of land, so you'll have all the privacy you need.

Compact mudroom off the front entry offers storage and recessed drawers for mail and all the things you'll likely to lose (including your keys!)

On the north side, you’ll find the lap pool which runs 10 feet deep to accommodate one of the homeowners, who insists on entering the pool with a dive every time.

Rural Studio’s hope is that within the next couple years, it’ll be able to begin testing some of the $20K House prototypes with local builders. "We’ll have a contractor take the model, build it, and tell us what was smart, how we could make it less expensive, and so on while at the same time employing people to build the homes, bringing money to the economy, and giving others affordable housing options," Freear says. And to make it easier, the students who were behind the Pattern Book House-—Coshow, Douge, Grubb, and Ward—-are hoping to soon complete a pattern book to accompany the design. Photo by Ty Cole

In the main corridor of the refreshed 19th century building, you’ll find original mosaic floors and lush potted plants from Alejandra Coll of Asilvestrada Plants.

"Make sure they love old houses as much as you do,” says Goldman, “or else you'll be fighting them when they want to do something that sacrifices the architecture that you love.”

For the time being, Cori does her painting in the dining room. “Eventually we’ll build a studio here,” she says. “But for now, because we eat outside most of the time, the dining room it is.”