Here's how a mother and her adult son live comfortably in a 500-square-foot apartment. Such shifts could happen on a small scale as well. In Tokyo, Japan, one son decided to move back into his ...

House Calls; In 300 square feet ... which emphasizes simplicity over clever design tricks—that way, ... "The one thing I knew was that I didn't want it to be one of those convertible apartments." ...

nARCHITECTS, Monadnock Development LLC, and Actors Fund HDC's Micro NY will bring affordable, tiny living to Kip's Bay.

That's because in Passive House design, every jog and bump adds surface area and can be a thermal bridge or a source of air leakage, so Passive House buildings want to be boxy.

In 1966, Arnaldo Pomodoro turned to Ettore Sottsass to renovate his apartment in the center of Milan. The pioneering architect behind Memphis design immediately thought of it as “a space devoid ...