inhabitat

urban housing

compact living space with modular furniture

Victorian-era townhouse converted into 14 light-filled micro-apartments

The popularity of micro-apartments has really taken off over the years as cities continue to seek affordable solutions...

china, people's architecture office, china pao, prefabricated home, prefab home, urban housing, urban dwellings, hex key, mrs fan's plugin house, plugin tower

This $10k tiny house can be built with a hex key in less than a day

Cheap Chinese goods are a bit of a joke in America, but when a company manages to produce an entire house with...

Bierpinsel tower, berlin graffiti tower, unique homes, towers for sale, graffiti in berlin, bierpinsel tower for sale, berlin real estate, urban design, urban housing, odd real estate, tower design, brutalist architecture berlin, brutalist tower berlin

Berlin’s famed brutalist Bierpinsel tower hits the market for $3.8m

You can now live in one of Berlin's most iconic examples of brutalist architecture - for the price tag of $3.8...

MINI Living Breathe, MINI Living at Milan Salone del Mobile 2017, MINI housing, MINI Living Breathe by SO – IL, SO – IL Architects and MINI, MINI at Milan design week, Milan Design Week house, futuristic housing, housing shortage solutions

MINI’s tiny innovative home for three purifies the air in Milan

How do we cope with the increasing shortage of attractive housing in today’s cities? Car manufacturer MINI teamed...

Schwartz Besnosoff Architects, Bar Orian Architects, communal living, urban village, urban community, ecological design, Haifa, Israel, Israeli architecture, Moshav, Kibbutz, urban housing, ecological design, green design, green building, eco design

Thriving student village allows fauna and flora to flourish

The built environment ensures that fauna and flora can flourish uninhibited by human presence, embracing the traditional...

adAPT Nyc, adAPT NYC competition, Making Room: New Housing for New Yorkers, micro apartment, micro home, micro house, micro living, micro living space, Museum of City of New York, tiny apartment, tiny apartments ny, tiny home living, tiny house, tiny house nyc, urban housing, real new yorkers live in mcny

Go See Real New Yorkers Live in a Tiny Apartment Inside the Museum of the City of New York

MCNY's "Living Large While Living Small" will take place over the last month of the "Making Room: New Models for...

Charity Forest YMCA, UK, homelessness, homeless crisis, converted shipping containers, shipping container homes, affordable housing, England, Brighton, East London, urban design, urban housing, sustainable design, repurposed materials, adaptive reuse, recycling

Shipping Container Homes Ease UK Homeless Crisis

A slew of converted shipping containers are expected to help ease a growing homelessness epidemic in cities across...

Museum of City of New York; New York; New York City; Inhabitat NYC; Amanda Coen; sustainable architecture; urban housing; sustainable housing; convertible furniture; adAPT NYC competition; adAPT NYC; architecture competition; architecture exhibition; museum exhibition; Making Room: New Housing for New Yorkers; NY housing; Amie Gross Architects; AGA; CHPC; Citizens Housing & Planning Council; Architectural League; shared housing; adult housing; sustainable furniture; furniture design; interior design; Clei s.r.l.; Resource Furniture, tiny house, tiny apartment, tiny apartments ny, tiny house nyc, micro apartment, micro living, micro living space, micro house, micro home, small space living, tiny home living

PHOTOS: 325 Sq. Ft. Micro Apartment Opens at the Museum of the City of NY’s Making Room Exhibit

With an the estimated increase of one million residents by 2030 announced in Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC report, housing...

daylighting, solar orientation, Keiji Ashizawa, Japanese design, urban housing, urban design, sustainable design, Mishima House, Keiji Ashizawa, Japan, steel-framed home,

Industrial Chic Mishima House is a Sterling Example of Low Budget Urban Housing in Japan

It was very important to maintain a sense of privacy despite the home's location amid the din of central Tokyo....

Polikatoikea, Filipe Magalhaes, Ana Luisa Soares, origami competition, urban design, modular housing, urban housing, ikea

Polikatoikea Combines Small Space Living With Urban Design and an Ikea Philosophy

Filipe Magalhaes and Ana Luisa Soares collaborated on Polikatoikea for the Origami Competition to design a new...

ultima_1

MILES HIGH ULTIMA TOWER: Vertical Eco City Works Like a Tree

We've seen a whole slew of gigantic, volcano shaped, city-in-a-building towers, each promising to be the largest...

Parasite Prefab

PREFAB FRIDAY: Parasitic Homes Take Root On Empty Walls

As more people filter into the city, open land to build on will become more and more scarce, and we may have to...

More Popular Stories >