Grimshaw designs tiny homes for Australian charity
Grimshaw has designed a 35-metre-square micro home to raise money for Kids Under Cover, which supports homeless youth in Australia. More
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Yesul Jang designs storage bed for compact living
ÉCAL graduate Yesul Jang has designed a bed with storage capacity for millennials with limited space in urban dwellings. More
Latest MINI Living Urban Cabin references "dynamic construction of Los Angeles"
Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and architect David Freeland explain how the micro home they built on a Los Angeles rooftop responds to the city in our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie. More
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Sieger Design creates tiny home spa that fits inside micro apartments
A horizontal shower replaces the bathtub in this futuristic six-square-metre home spa, designed for small-space living by German studio Sieger Design. More
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Alfonso Arango builds tiny black cabin next to his childhood home
Architect Alfonso Arango has designed himself a 24-square-metre weekend retreat next to his childhood home overlooking the Andes mountains in Colombia. More
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Land Ark unveils modern take on classic American RV
Colorado startup Land Ark has revealed its first mobile home, which features angled walls, black metal cladding and an interior wrapped in white-washed pine. More
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MINI Living Urban Cabin for LA features central intervention by FreelandBuck
Los Angeles architecture firm FreelandBuck has added a volume covered in bold graphics to the latest edition of the MINI Living Urban Cabin, a prototype micro home installed on a rooftop in the city's Downtown area. More
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IKEA debuts micro-living products that take their cues from space travel
IKEA has previewed a collection of space-saving furniture and homeware inspired by life in space, to cater to customers living in micro homes. More
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BIG designs prototype tiny cabin in Upstate New York
Architecture firm BIG has created a small black cabin with an angular roofline in the Hudson Valley, as the first model for prefab-housing startup Klein. More
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MINI Living and Studiomama's Milan installation allowed "everyone to become an architect"
In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, architect Oke Hauser and designer Nina Tolstrup explain how MINI's Milan design week installation let visitors design their own micro homes. More
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Low-cost micro home is made from timber and scavenged materials
Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near Bath, England, for just £20,000, thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. More
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Micro homes inside water pipes could take advantage of unused urban space
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series features a proposal to create micro homes inside concrete water pipes. More
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Sliding doors and built-in furniture save space inside skinny house by Ana Rocha Architecture
At just four metres wide Ana Rocha Architecture's wooden skinny house in Almere Poort, the Netherlands, has a frame that took only two days to build and occupies less space than a double parking slot. More
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Egg-shaped micro home allows inhabitants to live off-grid
This captioned movie shows an ovoid micro home by Slovakian firm Nice Architects, which was designed to allow its owners to be self-sustainable and move where they want. More
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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
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Competition: win a book about tiny "nomadic" homes all over the world
Dezeen is giving two readers the chance to win a copy of Nomadic Homes, a book featuring a selection of moveable compact dwellings around the globe. More
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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
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Dezeen's top 10 tiny homes of 2017
The past year has seen many architects and designers unveil innovative ideas for space-saving housing, whether in the city or out in the wilderness. Here are some of the best examples to emerge, selected by editor Amy Frearson for our review of 2017. More
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Competition: win a book that reveals the interiors of tiny homes
Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win a copy of Small Homes, Grand Living – a book that explores how tiny dwellings make the most of their square footage. More
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MINI Living Urban Cabin explores how future cities may merge public and private, says Sam Jacob
In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, architect Sam Jacob and Corinna Natter of MINI Living explain how micro homes, like the one they presented during London Design Festival, could one day function as shared resources. More
