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WeLive Marries Micro-Apartments, Coworking, Magic
In case you didn’t know, WeWork is one of the largest coworking organizations in the US, if not the world. They have 19 buildings in three countries. When this author visited their Soho West location,...
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Unfettered Micro-Apartment for the Modern Single City Dweller
Architecturally speaking, 220 sq ft isn’t a ton of room to work with, particularly when you’re trying to include a full apartment’s worth of function. Such was the task at hand for New York’s Echo...
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Killing Le Corbusier’s Beloved Parking Spaces
With the possible exception of Frank Lloyd Wright, there is no architect more famous than Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, far better known as Le Corbusier. While rightfully lauded for his massive...
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Five People, Nine Cubes, Lots of Wood
By LifeEdited standards, 872 sq ft (81 sq m) isn’t small, but when it’s housing a family of five, it’s pretty impressive. That was the space Brachard de Tourdonnet Architects were tasked with making...
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Hudson Yards: A New, New York City
We’ve talked about building cities from scratch in the Arizona desert and China. In both cases, cities were built on top of undeveloped land. But what if someone wanted to create a city from scratch...
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A Thoroughly Modern Take on Shared Housing
A big focus is put on micro-apartments when talking about compact, efficient living. There’s good reason for this we believe. By and large, the world’s populations are consolidating in the cities with...
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LifeEdited Family-Style (Part 1 of 2)
Corporate culture can take many forms. If you work at a hedge fund, corporate culture might involve private jets, Ferraris and country clubs. If you work as a farmer, corporate culture might involve...
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LifeEdited Family-Style (Part 2 of 2)
[If you didn't read Part 1, find it here] Moving into the place required a lot of removal. Prior to the small 500 sq ft Brooklyn place mentioned before, we were in a 1200 sq ft one. When we moved out...
View ArticleIs Portland Getting Ready for a Tiny House Revolution?
Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention. The necessity in Portland–not to mention many other places–is housing the homeless and other economically marginalized citizens. The invention...
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Spanish Apartment Expands the Notion of Micro
As we saw a couple weeks ago with Share House in Japan, shared housing can cut one’s spatial footprint as much or more than an single-occupant micro-apartment. And with the right design, shared living...
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Residential Behavioral Architecture 101
The above image was taken from an article in a Wall Street Journal article about the book “Life at Home in the 21st Century.” The UCLA group responsible for the book followed 32 middle class Los...
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$28K Turnkey Shipping Container Home
There’s a certain elegance to shipping container homes. The basic structure is needlessly tough. There is an abundance of used containers to build with. They are infinitely portable. Their dimensions...
View ArticleShould There Be Housing Size Minimums?
Last week, Seattle’s City Council was discussing micro-housing regulation–a discussion that’s been going on for a while. About a year ago, we looked at a proposal that sought to define a...
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In Praise of the Mobile Home Park (Don’t Call it a You Know What)
A recent NY Times article centered around Montauk Shores, a mobile home park on the far east end of Long Island, NY. Whereas many mobile home parks are paragons of low-cost living, Montauk Shores, with...
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Why Small, White-Walled, Minimally Decorated Homes Rock
We realize many of our readers are not big fans of mostly white, minimally-decorated homes. We know, we know: they’re too pristine, they don’t have any personality, they’re not good for collectors, you...
View ArticleVideo Tour of Brooklyn Studio to Two Bedroom Conversion
Something about Adam Finkelman’s Brooklyn transformation of an open-floor-planned studio into a two bedroom apartment really resonated with our readers. Perhaps it was his imaginative use of reclaimed...
View ArticleHousing an Aging Population
By 2030, it is estimated that there will be 33M more seniors (65+) than there are today. A majority of these seniors-to-be are currently living in big homes in the suburbs. These are homes that require...
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Japanese Architects Build Multi-Generation Family a Tiny Village
Fitting a large number of people under one roof comfortably and with privacy can be a tricky proposition. Japan’s y+M Architecture took an interesting approach in achieving this with their Rain Shelter...
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US’s Oldest Mall Opens Up as Micro-Apartment Complex
In February of 2013, we took a look at Rhode Island’s Providence Arcade. Developer Evan Granoff was taking the top two floors of the 1828-built building–the US’s oldest indoor shopping mall–and...
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Nakagin Capsule Tower: The Future of Compact Living, circa 1972
Don’t let its weathered facade fool you, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was one of the most innovative architectural designs of its day. Designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa, the Tokyo tower was completed...
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