Last Stop for Long-Haul Containers
By JULIE V. IOVINE
LOS ANGELES
DEVELOPERS take note: nesting nomads could be a trend to track.
Two sure-footed front-runners are Jennifer Siegal and Richard Carlson. She is an architect who specializes in buildings on wheels and keeps an Airstream trailer parked in Marfa, Tex., as a getaway. He lives in four old shipping containers in downtown Los Angeles that she transformed into a sleek modern glass house. There is even an indoor lap pool made, naturally, of a shipping container sunk into the floor.
Mr. Carlson, 51, is a developer, most notably of the Brewery, a former Pabst Blue Ribbon building that he upgraded in 1981 into live-and-work lofts for artists and other creative types.
Ms. Siegal, 37, dropped by six years ago to admire his collection of shipping containers strewn around the 20-acre Brewery site. The 40-foot steel and aluminum shipping crates, she said, are "the building blocks of the construction industry." She is out to prove that they are also ideal for a new kind of homemaking.
jenifer siegal is designmobile
for a little more on Marfa Texas, try this: http://www.marfa.org
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By JULIE V. IOVINE
LOS ANGELES DEVELOPERS take note: nesting nomads could be a trend to track.
Two sure-footed front-runners are Jennifer Siegal and Richard Carlson. She is an architect who specializes in buildings on wheels and keeps an Airstream trailer parked in Marfa, Tex., as a getaway. He lives in four old shipping containers in downtown Los Angeles that she transformed into a sleek modern glass house. There is even an indoor lap pool made, naturally, of a shipping container sunk into the floor.
Mr. Carlson, 51, is a developer, most notably of the Brewery, a former Pabst Blue Ribbon building that he upgraded in 1981 into live-and-work lofts for artists and other creative types.
Ms. Siegal, 37, dropped by six years ago to admire his collection of shipping containers strewn around the 20-acre Brewery site. The 40-foot steel and aluminum shipping crates, she said, are "the building blocks of the construction industry." She is out to prove that they are also ideal for a new kind of homemaking.
- bill 7-17-2003 5:28 pm
jenifer siegal is designmobile
- bill 7-17-2003 6:40 pm [add a comment]
for a little more on Marfa Texas, try this: http://www.marfa.org
- anonymous (guest) 2-19-2005 8:25 am [add a comment]