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Posh and Compact Flat in London
Got a million bucks (£695K) burning a hole in your pocket and looking for some awesome compact digs in London? No, neither do I, but if I did, I would totally consider buying this 501 sq ft apartment...
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Living Well in the Margins
In most any area, it’s generally best to look to the margins, not the center, for innovative thinking. Small space architecture is no different. Conventional architecture is too often big and boring,...
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There Is More than One Way to Skin a Tiny House
One of the bigger charges against tiny living is the lack of variance in style. You either have your stark and modern high end micro apartment in the city or your hyper-traditional, wood-clad tiny...
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The World’s Coolest High Rise Apartment Building
This site has touched on the Passive House standard in the past. When applied, the German-born energy efficiency standard allows a building, regardless of the weather outside, to stay temperate,...
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This House Will Make You Simple. In a Good Way.
There’s something very elegant about enclosed storage in small spaces. It allows all of your stuff to be hidden from view, creating a clean, clutter free aesthetic. But enclosed storage can also help...
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The Wheels of These Homes Go Round and Round
Have you ever thought you understood the world around you, then all of sudden discover hidden subcultures right under your nose? You thought you knew your colleagues and neighbors and then find out...
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The Neighborhood within the Neighborhood
Pocket neighborhoods prove that an edited home can take on many shapes and sizes and be located most anywhere. The term, coined by architect Ross Chapin, refers to clusters of houses that share common,...
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Wood, You Live Well in this Tiny Space (?)
Maybe it’s the sketchy economic climate preventing people from getting fancy lacquered surfaces. Or maybe there’s a wood stain shortage. Or perhaps Lumber Liquidators has been further liquidating....
View ArticleWill Moore’s Law Spur an Architectural Revolution?
George Carlin once summed up the history of architecture by saying, “Your house is a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff!” And for much of architectural history, this assertion...
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Competition Uses Tight Resources to Squeeze Out Big Designs
Man built most nobly when limitations were at their greatest. Frank Lloyd Wright You’d think that if we had access to boundless resources for our architecture, we would build the most amazing...
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YO! Home So Small You Gotta Put Your Bed on the Ceiling
When I posted about the YO! Home prototype apartment a few years ago, I was impressed with its features: the big lounge, the hydraulic table and seating that sprung from the floor and, of course, the...
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Tiny Flat Celebrates Less
Magical things can happen when people see small as a choice rather than an unfortunate situation. The latter person will be unlikely commit to her life. Her home, stuff and attitude will reflect a...
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The Rise of the Minimalist Millionaire
Aside from its inherent space and energy efficiency, compact living–or rather the high density living that often accompanies it–has been credited as being a catalyst for innovation. In his book Triumph...
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Get Your Life on Track
I’ve covered more than my fair share of compact, mobile homes. More often than not, the mobility is expressed on pavement, whether the home is affixed to a bicycle, a truck chassis or being towed...
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The Chicago Bungalow
In the early part of the 20th Century, the United States experienced a surge of housing demand from upwardly mobile first and second generation immigrants. Fueled by incomes that exceeded their...
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Anyone Up for a Trip to Iceland?
A reader sent me this Airbnb listing featuring three identical tiny cabins available to rent out. Located in the roaring metropolis of Sunnuhlíð, Iceland, these tiny houses look like the perfect place...
View ArticleThe Tiny House ‘Sturgis’ Coming to Colorado this Weekend
Tiny houses are, to borrow a hopefully soon-to-be-retired expression, trending. I believe this trendingness is attributable to their role as the architectural embodiment of our collective exhaustion...
View ArticleTour Yesterday’s Future Architecture Right Now
I’ve long expressed my affection for the Nakagin Capsule Tower. The 1972-built residential tower, located in the Ginza district of Tokyo, was a daring expression of the Metabolism architectural...
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It’s All About the Benjamin
There’s a subject in many of the posts I write about that is present but not always called out by name. The subject is money. Time and again, we read stories about people editing their lives, not just...
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New Startup Offers Rent-a-Tiny-House
As I brought up a few weeks ago, there is a real need for more small, inexpensive vacation homes, ideally ones that are easily accessed by city-dwellers. City life can be a real grind. Without some...
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