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<body><div>Huh. </div><div><br></div><div>The house in the first image of the link provided by Erin is eerily reminiscent of images #12 to #14 (in link below) of a house that was built here by the man known as "the Father of Kanata" who, in the 1960s bought 3000 acres of land ~ 25 kms outside of the nation's capital and set out to build a model community based on the "garden city" idea of the early 20th C. Modernists.</div><div><br></div><div>Although he built his home just around 10 years ago, in looking at the images</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.ottawacitizen.com/homes/Teron+puts+Kanata+home+sale/9700237/story.html?tab=PHOT</div><div><br></div><div>... one could easily be forgiven for thinking that the house was built back in the days circa Frank Lloyd Wright's 1930s Johnson Wax building or the Hippies "Gooey Architecture" era of the 1960s.</div><div><br></div><div>And if you're thinking of slamming the 2-bedroom house as being excessive, have a gander at some of the other houses being sold by the same realtor </div><div> http://christiesrealestate.com/ </div><div><br></div><div> ... and then you can have your conniption fit.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: The same fellow was head of the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. for a time ( back in the 70s ? ) </div><div> Long-time Listers will know CMHC as a source of a wealth of building science research & knowledge </div><div> http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:50:25 -0400, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn <info@ecobrooklyn.com> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr">These glass houses may not work so well in places other than temperate zones. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Erin Rasmussen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com" target="_blank">erin@trmiles.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027132/this-eco-village-is-an-environmentalists-dream" target="_blank">http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027132/this-eco-village-is-an-environmentalists-dream</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br><br><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom ADT1 <br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada</div></div></body></html>