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Ok, where to start? First: the interviewer has no concept of cost: $7 million? Missing a zero there, unless its $7 mill. just for the shell. Second: there's nothing new about this technology- insulated pre-fab concrete panels have been used in commercial construction for a decade now. OK maybe there is twice the insulation in this example, and maybe its held together differently, but its not rocket science. The only problem with it is getting a sense of craft into the work- a level of detail that you might have in any honest historic example, since the panels are machine made. Third: why do you have to build 70,000 sq. ft. to test the material? Most test projects I have been involved with were 2000 sq. ft. or less.
I'm guessing that there is some creative marketing going on here: for the products (subsidies) , for the energy efficiency (more subsidies), and for the future use as a conference center etc. (write offs).
Ok, where to start? First: the interviewer has no concept of cost: $7 million? Missing a zero there, unless its $7 mill. just for the shell. Second: there's nothing new about this technology- insulated pre-fab concrete panels have been used in commercial construction for a decade now. OK maybe there is twice the insulation in this example, and maybe its held together differently, but its not rocket science. The only problem with it is getting a sense of craft into the work- a level of detail that you might have in any honest historic example, since the panels are machine made. Third: why do you have to build 70,000 sq. ft. to test the material? Most test projects I have been involved with were 2000 sq. ft. or less.
I'm guessing that there is some creative marketing going on here: for the products (subsidies) , for the energy efficiency (more subsidies), and for the future use as a conference center etc. (write offs).
Sounds about right for cost, $100 a square foot or there about. It's not detailed construction with expensive materials.
Marketing for sure. Biggest home built in the US in the last 60 years gets attention, even if its not particularly impressive. Especially if done at costs for mass construction, which at around $100/sq foot they are.
Sounds about right for cost, $100 a square foot or there about. It's not detailed construction with expensive materials.
Marketing for sure. Biggest home built in the US in the last 60 years gets attention, even if its not particularly impressive. Especially if done at costs for mass construction, which at around $100/sq foot they are.
Not for high end construction. $100/ft is cheap run of the mill custom home construction. This house will be well beyond this.
Edgemere Estate, last owner was Peter Gilgan, a major homebuilder in the Toronto area, but it will now be destroyed for boutique condos... The owners spared no expense on the plaster mouldings inside. I think the house was built in the 80s.
63 Park Lane Circle in Toronto's Bridle Path neighbourhood. I think a lot of the homes were built for foreigners, and the area took a bit of a hit with the economy with a couple mansions that look like they were abandonned mid-construction. However, this ones looks like a keeper to me.
If I had the money, I would much rather build a few small houses in different parts of the country than one big dump. It would be every nice to spend different seasons in different places with a small low upkeep home in each place.
Hmm... classic proportions, well thought out design, built out of solid concrete with the latest technological innovations...
Definitely NOT a mcmansion!
People need to realize size itself is not an indicator of bad mcmansion-ish architecture. It's ok, really... it's kinda like a 21st century Biltmore...
Now here's a house/mansion that would qualify for homeowner's insurance in Mexico, as in Mexico you can't get insurance on a house built out of wood. Not built out of concrete, no insurance!
If I had the money, I would much rather build a few small houses in different parts of the country than one big dump. It would be every nice to spend different seasons in different places with a small low upkeep home in each place.
Something I usually have to remind people that say this sort of thing about houses/cars, whatever. People that have this sort of money usually don't have to choose either/or. It's not this OR that, it's usually both. They don't have one big house instead of a few smaller houses scattered around. They often HAVE smaller places scattered around as well as the one big house.
It's only us poor people that think that we'd have to take several lesser places instead of one big one...
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Will be impossible to sell
classic proportions, well thought out design, built out of solid concrete with the latest technological innovations... 
