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State of Art of Tech Overkill?
Porto, Portugal based architectural firm Consexto might be the look of things to come in home design. They have executed a number of projects at the vanguard of technological and architectural...
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Function and Form Sharing 237 Sq Ft
Often, the biggest limitation in designing small spaces is not lack of floor space, but lack of money. Let’s face it, people with budgets for fancy architects, designs and materials typically live in...
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Turn On, Tune In, Get Tiny
To live in a tiny house is as much political statement as it is architectural one. Take the NOMAD tiny house–its whole raison d’etre seemed to be stopping its owner from living the highly-leveraged,...
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Architecture for Swingers
This Didomestic apartment by Madrid’s Elii Architects has been making the blog rounds lately. There’s a lot going on in the 620 sq ft converted attic. Much of the apartment’s furnishings can fully...
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Underground Party in Paris
We have a soft-spot for large civic projects that provide city dwellers places to loiter, ahem, congregate. Places that make the sometimes-grinding, cramped nature of city life totally worthwhile....
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Tour the iPhone of Homes
The gadget is probably the most important product design concept of the 21st Century. Whether applied to a phone, tablet, watch or whatever, the descriptor denotes a product that serves many roles and...
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The New American Dream Home
Yesterday’s NY Times profiled the Kawabatas–a family of four who share a 1300 sq ft home in Garrison, NY. The article, entitled “The Anti-McMansion,” tells the tale of one family that’s bucking the...
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Bike Lanes in the Sky
Across the world, bicycles are quickly gaining ground as the transportation of choice–if they weren’t already. The reasons are clear: they’re exceedingly efficient and green, quick and keep you...
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Why Household Size Matters
We often talk about housing density. We’re mostly in favor of it. In general, density allows more people to live in less area, resulting in small, efficient homes,...
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Keep it Simple Schuybroek
Least our readers think the only way to make a small space amazing is through hiding beds, moving walls and high tech gimmicks, let us point your attention toward Nicolas Schuybroek. The Belgian...
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Seattle’s Urban Boom
Forget NYC and San Francisco as the American leaders in smart urban growth. Seattle is where it’s at. The two former cities–with their tight geographies and urban grids conducive to walking, public...
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There are few critiques more oft heard about tiny house living than “you can’t do that with kids.” The logic goes that kids have lots of stuff. They need play spaces and room for their soccer balls and...
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Everything in Its Right Place
Anyway you cut it, 240 sq ft is not a ton of space to work with, which makes architect Tim Seggerman‘s conversion of this NYC space all the more remarkable. Seggerman took the tiny place and created a...
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Insulate Yourself with Art
Building materials seldom get a lot of love outside of trade rags. For example, the LifeEdited apartment’s insulation allowed us to go from four to one radiators, providing huge energy savings. But...
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Tiny House Village Provides Big Life
If you build it, they will come..eventually. Such is the case with the perpetually displaced tiny house building typology. The popular demi-homes have a habit of falling on the wrong side of the law...
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Rem’s Cool Little House
The Rem Koolhaas designed De Rotterdam is a 44-story building with three towers occupying the same footprint as a soccer stadium. 16 years in the making, it is now one of Europe’s largest buildings....
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Single Family Home V 2.0
Multi-family housing and large buildings are, in most any possible scenario, going to be the most energy efficient form of housing out there. Multiple floors and dwelling units allow greater population...
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Tabula-Rasaburg
Many, if not most major cities have been around for some time. NYC dates from the 17th Century, San Francisco from the 19th, London from the Roman Empire. As such, these and other cities are burdened...
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It’s Fun to Live at the Y:Cube
In the quest to provide much needed affordable housing to London, architecture firm Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners, in conjunction with YMCA London South West, has designed the Y:Cube. The simple 26 sq...
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The Problem with Big Cakes
Imagine you’re hosting a birthday party and you need to choose a cake to buy. The first option is one of those huge, dried-out, grocery-store-bought-cakes with icing made of HFCS and partially...
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