It seems I'm off on a tangent . . .

. . . But I just had to post pix of this truly delightful chicken coop which couldn't look more dissimilar from the one I posted last. Both are great-looking, yet totally different.

Matthew Hayward (a furniture designer and engineer) and Nadia Turan (a creative director) developed nogg, a modern chicken coop in the shape of an egg. Their website is still under construction: Nogg. via Blue Ant Studio. – GF

Suitable for Modern chicks

Dwell Magazine posted this story on a chicken coop that will go nicely with your modern, or not, home.

Mitchell Snyder, architect & chicken owner says: “The living roof helps keep the coop cool, but mostly it was a chance to experiment and design something fun,” The only thing Snyder would change, in retrospect, is the human 
access: “We have to crouch down a little to go through the run and into the coop to clean it.” Hmmm. From the looks of it, I thought that might be the case...

Love the green roof! Air circulation and accessibility are so important – combine all that into a Mod Coop 2.0 pre-fab and maybe I'll just get my chickens after all! – GF

18 modern New Canaan homes named to the National Register of Historic Places

So – at last! The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced today that for the first time a statewide thematic listing of Modern residential architecture has been accepted onto the National Register of Historic Places. 18 Modern residences in New Canaan – the home of Philip Johnson's Glass House, a National Trust Historic Site – have successfully been recognized as historically relevant and added to the State and/or National Register of Historic Places, the nation’s official list of places worthy of preservation.

Read about it here (national) and here (local). – GF