Designed by Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey of the NSW Government Architect’s Office (GAO), the Concrete House celebrates concrete as an honest and robust material. The design utilises readily-available components to create a solid mass of curvilinear concrete shells on the south side of the house and curtain-like enclosures to the north side that open […]
Category: Housing
Your Portable Propane Heater Is Trying To Kill You
There are several causes of noisy operation. If you adjusted the gas input screw that may have been the wrong adjustment, but hard to tell from the written word on posts. For burner roar, the air shutter has to be adjusted for the air fuel mixture. Also the blower wheel can be out of balance, […]
Japanese Housing: Home or Hutch?
Of all the economic and social criticism that has been leveled against Japan in recent years, perhaps no single comment has hurt Japanese pride so deeply as a remark made by EC representative John Glenman: “The Japanese,” he reported, “are a nation of workaholics living in rabbit hutches.” Being characterized as ultra-hard workers is not […]