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Published 9 years ago by messi with 1 Comments
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New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors Of Prefab Apartments That Click Together

Imagine a future in which cities are no longer grown from the ground up with poured concrete. Factories spit out bathrooms, kitchens, and whole apartment floors to be stacked and sealed into dazzling towers. Faster, more environmentally efficient, and affordable housing is a given, and megacities more closely resemble tightly assembled airplane engines than accidents of density and sprawl.

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    As metal chassis come into the factory, finished mods go out by truck, and are lowered behind the Barclays Center onto the new structure by crane. The group has also pledged that its prefab process will save money and reduce the construction waste that occurs when building from the ground up by 70% to 90%.

    Sounds amazing, would really love to watch a documentary video showing one of these build from the ground up.

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