The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports:
Technology entrepreneur Philippe Kahn has taken home construction, environmental stewardship and style to a new level.
Kahn ... had his new home near the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor trucked in from Los Angeles.
The prefabricated house was delivered last week in 18 pieces, each wrapped in white plastic and stored in the harbor parking lot.
By today, the pieces, made of steel and glass, will be fit together like a puzzle to make a 3,200-square-foot, three-bedroom home on Fairview Place....
Kahn's home was constructed by Marmol Radziner, a Los Angeles architectural firm that specializes in custom, green modern homes built with prefabricated technologies.
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author: Shanna McCord
publication: Santa Cruz Sentinel
length: 500 words
publication date: March 17, 2008