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  • ODDO Architects builds five-storey CH House on four-metre-wide site in Hanoi

    Vietnamese studio ODDO Architects has slotted a spacious family home into a narrow gap between two buildings in Hanoi. More

    Amy Frearson | 11 October 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Frankie Pappas threads skinny house through South African forest

    Architecture collective Frankie Pappas has hidden the 3.3-metres-wide House of the Big Arch within the Bushveld nature reserve in the north of South Africa. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 26 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Sandy Rendel Architects slots narrow house into Peckham alley

    Sandy Rendel Architects, working with Sally Rendel, has built a 2.8-metre-wide skinny home named Slot House in a disused alley in Peckham, south London. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 19 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Skinny house squeezed into dense Tokyo neighbourhood

    A skinny house clad in black steel by Apollo Architects & Associates slots into a tiny plot of land in Tokyo, Japan, and features minimalist interiors. More

    Lizzie Crook | 5 February 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Skinny house built in gap for Victorian coach house in London

    The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. More

    Jon Astbury | 22 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Industrial shed converted into skinny house and studio in Amsterdam

    Parts of an industrial shack in Amsterdam have been incorporated into the 5-metre-wide Huis M&M, a residential conversion by NEXT Architects and architect Claudia Linders. More

    Jon Astbury | 16 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Twelve skinny houses that make the most of every inch

    With space at a premium in cities, architects are designing homes that can squeeze into the narrowest of gaps. We've rounded up 12 skinny houses that are four-metres wide or less to show that size isn't everything. More

    Semi Han | 10 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • FORM/Kouichi Kimura designs Slender House in suburban Japan

    A stack of intersecting concrete and metal cuboids combines to create this long, narrow home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. More

    Jon Astbury | 25 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Studio BAM! builds Infill House in London garden

    Architecture practice Studio BAM! has built a skinny house clad in charred cedar in the garden of a Victorian end-of-terrace home in London. More

    Jon Astbury | 23 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • AGo Architects builds skinny house in Indonesia on a 3.5-metre plot

    A perforated metal facade covers the front of 3,500 Millimetre House, a wedge-shaped skinny house built on a 3.5-metre-wide site in Indonesia by AGo Architects.  More

    Jon Astbury | 16 July 2019
  • Geneto raises skinny house in Japan above pentagonal garage hole

    Japanese architects Geneto has hollowed out a geometric void in the base of a four-metre-wide house in Osaka that doubles as a garage and communal space. More

    Jon Astbury | 23 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Oliver du Puy Architects creates 4.2-metre-wide Skinny House in Melbourne

    An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces. More

    Jon Astbury | 11 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Narrow House designed as prototype for building on unusual plots

    The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living series features an extremely narrow house designed for a 3.9-metre-wide plot in Brooklyn. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 11 March 2019
  • STPMJ stacks rooms to create skinny brick house in Seoul

    A skinny house by STPMJ dominates its surroundings by stacking five tall floors onto a 100-square-metre plot in Seoul to create a "provocative" take on a family home. More

    Jon Astbury | 28 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • OJT creates compact "starter home" for skinny site in New Orleans

    Architecture firm Office of Jonathan Tate has designed a tall, narrow dwelling in Louisiana that offers a new approach towards entry-level homes in America. More

    Jenna McKnight | 18 July 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    India Block | 27 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Skylights and slatted floors bring daylight into 2.5-metre-wide house in Japan

    Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has completed an exceptionally narrow timber house in Kobe, featuring an atrium that allows daylight to reach each of its levels. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 19 June 2017 | 6 comments
  • CCPM Arquitectos slots skinny corrugated-metal home into dense Buenos Aires neighbourhood

    This small and narrow townhouse by Argentinian practice CCPM Arquitectos is slotted into a gap in a tightly packed neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. More

    Jessica Mairs | 13 June 2017 | 10 comments
  • Timber frame projects into rooms and stairwell of Alphaville's compact Kyoto home

    The timber structure of this house in Kyoto by Japanese studio Alphaville pokes through into the interior spaces, which were designed to optimise the dimensions of a narrow site. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 15 May 2017 | 1 comment
  • Bamboo grows up inside narrow Vietnam house by Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects

    Plants grow up through the central atrium of this five-metre-wide house in Vietnam, designed by Nguyen Khac Phuoc Architects to offer its residents respite from noise and smog. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 13 April 2017 | 5 comments
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