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Micro apartments

  • Amsterdam apartment block features cupboard bedrooms

    Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has created playful interiors with cupboard bedrooms for the Domūs Houthaven residential complex in Amsterdam. More

    Rheanna Hopkins | 23 March 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Tiny Glasgow apartment transformed into playful pied-à-terre

    Architect Lee Ivett, designer Simon Harlow and developer Duncan Blackmore have turned a 25-square-metre apartment in Glasgow into a brightly coloured space that doesn't contain any freestanding furniture. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 26 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Lehrer Architects creates Willowbrook Apartments in LA for disabled veterans

    Bright colours provide an uplifting environment for formerly homeless tenants at a Los Angeles complex with micro-apartments and a community building that was designed by local studio Lehrer Architects. More

    Jenna McKnight | 13 September 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Martin Hopp adds space-saving "micro elements" to his Manhattan apartment

    New York architect Martin Hopp aimed to make the most of his dark, irregularly shaped apartment by using lots of white and creating clever "micro elements" like a retractable dining table. More

    Jenna McKnight | 2 July 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Doméstico uses "habitable artifact" to organize micro apartment in Quito

    Ecuadorian architects Juan Alberto Andrade and María José Váscones have made the most of the limited space in a micro apartment located within a new residential tower by Safdie Architects. More

    Jenna McKnight | 26 May 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Proctor and Shaw designs London micro-apartment with translucent "sleeping cocoon"

    London-based studio Proctor and Shaw has completed a 29-square-metre micro-apartment in Belsize Park, with an elevated sleeping area wrapped in translucent panels that reference Japanese shoji screens. More

    Jon Astbury | 25 September 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Minimalist micro-apartments in Seoul form "blank canvas for tenants"

    Interior designer Ian Lee has lined the walls of the LIFE micro-apartments in South Korea with birch wood to offer tenants pared-back spaces that they can personalise. More

    Lizzie Crook | 18 January 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Shipping containers turned into micro apartments by Containerwerk

    Building startup Containerwerk has turned old shipping containers into 21 micro apartments for visitors to the town of Wertheim in Germany. More

    India Block | 14 May 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Urban Cabin is a micro apartment in Italy with custom seating and storage

    Architect Francesca Perani has transformed the porch of an Italian villa into a 25-square-metre micro-apartment suitable for self-isolation with plenty of hidden storage. More

    Amy Frearson | 5 April 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Treehouse is a sloping block of co-living apartments with a tree-filled atrium

    Architecture studio Bo-Daa has designed Treehouse, a co-living complex in Seoul that is a stack of micro-apartments surrounding a planted atrium in a triangular concrete block. More

    Jon Astbury | 12 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Ten micro homes with floor plans that make the most of space

    With more people living in cities, architects are increasingly finding inventive ways to squeeze homes into small spaces. Here are the floor plans of 10 micro homes that make the most of every square metre. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 18 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Tiny apartments fill David Baker's 388 Fulton block in San Francisco

    American studio David Baker Architects has completed a housing block in San Francisco that comprises a pair of buildings covered in contrasting white cement and black tiles, and micro apartments inside. More

    Jenna McKnight | 13 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • A Little Design creates 17.6-square-metre micro flat in Taiwan

    Taiwanese studio A Little Design has converted a former piano studio in Taipei, Taiwan into a tiny apartment with built-in, space-saving furniture. More

    Ali Morris | 5 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Scalloped cage fronts 18-square-metre corner apartment in Buenos Aires

    Argentinian studio IR Arquitectura has transformed a leftover corner of a 1950s building in Buenos Aires into this small apartment, using built-in furniture and a caged balcony. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 17 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Tiny New York apartment by Graham Hill "functions like one twice its size"

    Moveable, folding and expandable furnishings turn the lounge of this 33-square-metre New York apartment into a master bedroom, or a dining room for 10 dinner guests. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 9 August 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Compact Apartment in São Paulo measures 24 square metres

    Brazilian studio Casa 100 Architecture has packed a kitchen and a wardrobe into a thin alcove to make the most of space at a tiny apartment. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 3 May 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Shoe Box apartment in Beirut packs everything into 15 square metres

    Lebanese studio Eliemetni has squeezed everything a guest could need into a micro studio apartment on the roof of an old building in the Achrafieh district of Beirut. More

    India Block | 31 January 2018 | 4 comments
  • Heatworks shrinks the standard dishwasher to fit inside micro homes

    Heatworks has created a countertop, app-controlled dishwasher for small homes, which can also be used to steam seafood and sanitise baby products. More

    Natashah Hitti | 26 January 2018 | 18 comments
  • Micro apartments in concrete pipes designed to ease Hong Kong's housing crisis

    Hong Kong studio James Law Cybertecture has developed a prototype for low-cost, stackable micro homes in concrete pipes, which could slot into gaps between city buildings. More

    India Block | 16 January 2018 | 25 comments
  • Ab Rogers Design creates 19-square-metre apartment in London

    Hackney-based studio Ab Rogers Design has managed to squeeze a kitchen, bed and bathroom into this 19-square-metre concept apartment by creating a pair of plywood living units with space-saving details. More

    Natasha Levy | 13 January 2018 | 8 comments
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    Minimalist home in Spain

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    Minimalist home in Spain

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    Architecture


    Weathering-steel Tokyo toilet

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    Dramatic cantilevered house

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    Architecture


    Giant canopy by Adjaye

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    Interiors


    Colourful Stockholm apartment

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    Architecture


    Sculptural Mangiarotti works

  • Kalba Ice Factory arts venue in Sharjah, UAE, by 51-1 Arquitectos

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    Converted ice factory

    Architecture


    Converted ice factory

  • View of Jeddah Central Museum by Heatherwick

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    Heatherwick Saudi museum

    Architecture


    Heatherwick Saudi museum

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    Brutalist cube-shaped home

    Architecture


    Brutalist cube-shaped home

  • Timeless Beacon by FangFang

    Architecture


    Ma Yansong installation

    Architecture


    Ma Yansong installation

  • Highgate Road facade of The Arches townhouses by The DHaus Company

    Architecture


    Arched London townhouses

    Architecture


    Arched London townhouses

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    Architecture


    Colourful preschool

    Architecture


    Colourful preschool

  • Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban

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    Timber-skeleton building

    Timber Revolution


    Timber-skeleton building

  • 10K House by Takk

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    Energy-saving Barcelona flat

    Interiors


    Energy-saving Barcelona flat

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