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Against All Odd (Shapes): 12 Homes Tailored to Tiny & Difficult Plots

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 ...

Tiny in Tokyo: Ultra-Narrow House Slotted into an Alley

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 ...

Smart Space Solutions: 14 Innovative Japanese Home Interiors

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 ...

Skinny Portable House for Singles Takes Just 1 Day to Build

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 ...

No Lot Too Challenging: 13 Ingenious Odd-Shaped Houses

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 ...

Spite Houses: 12 Structures Built Just to Annoy People

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 ...

Slim Living: World’s Thinnest House is Just Four Feet Wide

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, ...

Cramped City Living: 10 of the World’s Narrowest Houses

(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 ...

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