Plots of land long considered too small and strangely shaped to build upon prove to be more valuable when they seem thanks to some creative thinking. Across the world (put particularly in cramped ...
At just six feet wide, this incredibly narrow residence inserted into an alley in dense urban Tokyo is the latest example of Japanese architects thinking way outside the box when it comes to ...
Extremely narrow lots and busy urban locations are no big deal for ingenious Japanese architects creating comfortable, daylight-filled residential interiors with a few crucial design tricks, like ...
These narrow, movable, single-person residences provide affordable housing for young people shut out of more conventional options by the housing crisis in Europe's major cities, while also ...
The lot purchased by a homeowner might be seemingly impossible - clinging to a sheer cliff, squeezing into tight spaces, or consisting of an odd geometric shape - but by god, architects will find ...
These houses, apartment buildings and commercial structures weren't built as they are because the owners really loved the view or particularly wanted a five-foot-wide house just inches from the ...
A four-foot-wide space between two buildings in Warsaw, Poland has become the world's thinnest house. Architect Jakub Szczesny built a series of vertical spaces into the void including a kitchen, ...
(Check out our complete collection of 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World.) Would it surprise you to learn that a number of houses around the world, from New York to Amsterdam and Brazil to ...
