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A mobile home (also known as a house trailer, park home, trailer, or trailer home) is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation, they are often left permanently or semi-permanently in one place, but can be moved, and may be required to move from time to time for legal reasons.

Mobile homes share the same historic origins as travel trailers, but today the two are very different, with travel trailers being used primarily as temporary or vacation homes. Behind the cosmetic work fitted at installation to hide the base, mobile homes have strong trailer frames, axles, wheels, and tow-hitches. (Full article...)

• ... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
• ... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
• ... that the Felix M. Warburg House was converted into the Jewish Museum after nearly being replaced by apartments?
• ... that supply-side progressivism is a response to rising costs of housing, healthcare, and other essential goods in the United States?
• ... that the 32-story Bridge Apartments in New York City were built directly above a 12-lane freeway?
• ... that Compaq placed the built-in trackball of the LTE Lite on its display housing?
• ... that residents at Alterlaa, a housing complex in Vienna, have large concrete planters in which plants can be grown?
• ... that a condominium conversion of Manhattan House cost US$1.1 billion and took ten years?

... that the House with Chimaeras derives its popular name from the ornate decorations depicting exotic animals and hunting scenes?

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