Updates

March 11, 2009

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations announced yesterday that KieranTimberlake is among four firms selected to present designs for the new London Embassy Building in the Nine Elms district of London. State Department Press Release The U.S. Department of State’s…

February 9, 2009

After its debut at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas last month, the off-site fabricated home we designed for LivingHomes will be on display at the TED Conference in Long Beach. Designed to achieve LEED-Platinum certification, the two-story Kohler LivingHome features furnishings, materials, products and…

February 2, 2009

In January, we paid a visit to Melba and Baxter Barnes, the owners of KieranTimberlake’s first completed Make It Right home—a safe, sustainable, affordable home designed for the rebuilding of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In a meeting with the home’s owners…

January 12, 2009

KieranTimberlake has teamed up with LivingHomes, Profile Structures, and Color Design Art to create a modular show home for Builder magazine. The home will be on display at the 2009 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, January 20-23. You can…

December 3, 2008

Cellophane House™ was designed for ease of assembly, disassembly and re-assembly. With the conclusion of the Home Delivery show at the Museum of Modern Art on October 26, the next phase of our experiment is beginning. Our intention is to disassemble and rebuild the house on a new…

November 3, 2008

It was announced last week that Loblolly House is a winner of the second annual Lifecycle Building Challenge competition, sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The competition acknowledges the winning teams for developing building strategies that will help to reduce environmental and energy…

October 24, 2008

On October 17, 2008, AIA Philadelphia held its annual Awards for Design Excellence celebration. We were honored to accept four awards that evening, including a Gold Medal for Cellophane House™, our second gold medal in a row from AIA Philadelphia. The Gold Medal recognizes only one built…

October 2, 2008

Can we create a material that combines the ideal functions of a building envelope into a single product? We began exploring this question with SmartWrap™, a building envelope that has the potential to generate energy, control climate, and provide lighting and information display on a single printed substrate.

September 23, 2008

In a review of Cellophane House™ at MoMA, Andrew Blum of Wired says that “prefab’s time has finally come.” Instant Suburb of Prefabs Hits New York By Andrew Blum Tourists press up against the construction fence on the corner of 53rd and Sixth,…

September 18, 2008

Actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation selected KieranTimberlake among thirteen architecture firms to design safe, affordable, and environmentally sensitive housing to rebuild New Orleans’ Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward. Construction at Tennessee Street, the site of our first house, began on July 1, 2008; homeowners are scheduled to…