Architecture and design firm Ultramoderne recently asked the question: What would Frank Gehry’s 1980s concept of “cheapskate architecture” look like right now? Coprincipal Yasmin Vobis elaborated: “With construction as expensive as it is today, how can standard construction methods be at the core of a progressive approach to architecture? And how can this attitude allow architecture to be more generally accessible to the public at large?” The studio provides one answer with its latest two-family residential project, Friendship. Ultramoderne applied ingenuity and enlisted community collaboration in the development of a new sustainable blueprint that can be used toward future projects.
The 4,300-square-foot duplex occupies a previously
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