Flickr photoset of industrial designer Ross Stevens' New Zealand container house, "The bottom two containers, with no apparent windows, actually has a series of dinner plate sized peep holes (the grey spots on the outside), so the world passing overlaps in the lense view next to it." Via Jetson Green.
This week's MoCo picks.

+ Day 2 of the CA BOOM guided home tour in West Los Angeles featuring five modern homes at Land+Living.

+ Method Homes debuts modern green prefab design, they are "targeting LEED-H Gold certification for the five-module abode, which will be about 1811 sf with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.". Via Jetson Green.

+ my new cottage, fabprefab reader kt's container cottage under construction, "I got my site scouted, foundation laid and containers placed before winter last year.". Via materialicious.

+ Judith's 101(!) sq. ft. "Lux Pod" is entered into Apartment Therapy's Smallest Coolest contest. Watch the slideshow.
And more Milan Design Week coverage:
+ Dwell blog's Milan Report: Prefab, "At least two were shown at the Milan Furniture Fair last week, including Joshua Tree by the Hangar Design Group... and Planit a modular prefab designed by Studio Bestetti".

+ DESIGNWS.COM's daily photo reports for Day 5, and Day 6.

+ Core77's Milan 2008 Design Coverage Roundup: All posts in one place!

+ Gestalten.tv's video of Jaime Hayon, presenting "the unveiling of the first half of his Fantasy Collection for the Spanish porcelain manufacturer LladrĂ³". Via Dezain.

+ Ingo Maurer's lighting exhibit at designboom featuring Early Future, a limited edition lamp designed by Maurer for OSRAM using "OLED or organic light emitting diodes [that] are a new form of lighting technology that emit light evenly from a surface instead of individual points, like LEDs do.".

+ Front's Shade project, objects and furniture that are "like materialized illustrations".

+ Gareth Neal's George3 console table. Via Sub-Studio design blog.
+ Cool Hunting interviews designer Maarten Baas, "For me it was really the next step after Smoke, Clay, Sculpt...".
+ Designguide.TV's video of Studio Job's The Farm, "In an amazing barn-like space in the centre of milan, twenty-four bronze works and six pieces of pallissander furniture will evoke the archetypal artefacts of the low lands".
+ Package design blog TheDieline.com has two Milan Design Week posts; one for Italian fashion magazine Velvet and another for Droog.






