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 transport and compact, efficient living–have always packed people.
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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 architect proves that style and interior design restraint.
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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, walkable/bikable/public-transportation friendly living, more social living (by virtue of being closer to.
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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 healthy. Their one big drawback is that some folks are (justifiably).
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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 is packed with as much technology as.
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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. Places like Chicago’s Millenium Park–free to use, feature frequent events and.
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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 concealed in floor and ceiling cavities. On.
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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, consumerist lifestyle. We can now add.
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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 big spaces. It’s not that small spaces.
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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 integration. The firm describes themselves as “a company which offers.
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