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Edited Housing Guide: A Look at 4 Compact Housing Developments in North America
While building small is big in many places around the world, it’s still pretty novel in North America. Our abundance of space and affection for cars have made our architectural disposition similar to a...
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Micro-Apartments Stir Not-so-Micro Controversy in Seattle
Lest we think all micro-apartments are high-end, high-tech, highfalutin, transforming thingamabobs, one should go to Seattle to see another, decidedly modest and analogue take on tiny living. That city...
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Lifestyles of the Not-So-Rich or Famous
It’s awesome to look through design and architectural magazines and see amazing homes, designed by world-class architects, filled with gorgeous furniture, made with the highest quality materials and...
View ArticleTake a Tour of Steve Sauer’s 182 Sq ft Triplex
A while back, we looked at Steve Sauer’s 182 sq ft, self-built “pico-dwelling” in Seattle. The tiny triplex, built in a converted storage area, has the level of intricacy you’d expect from a Boeing...
View ArticleSeattle’s Micro Apartment War
Add micro apartments to wind turbines and public bike stations to things people don’t want in their backyards. Seattle’s micro-apartment controversy continues as news headlines and this letter we...
View ArticleWhat is a Micro Apartment?
Amidst its turmoil, the City of Seattle has drafted a proposal for establishing citywide micro-apartment (aka “micro-unit” and “micro-housing”) regulations. The good news is that “DPD [Dept. of...
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Seattle’s Urban Boom
Forget NYC and San Francisco as the American leaders in smart urban growth. Seattle is where it’s at. The two former cities–with their tight geographies and urban grids conducive to walking, public...
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This Tiny, Passive House Ain’t No Wimp
Don’t be fooled by its peace-loving name, few things will defend you from the elements like a Passive House. If you’re not familiar with the term, Passive House (aka Passivhaus) is a German-born set of...
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What It’s Like to Live in a Micro-Apartment
As a New Yorker, burdened as I am with our stereotypical New York-centricity, it kinda pains me to admit that Seattle is America’s micro-apartment capital. Seattle’s micro-apartment’s might lack the...
View ArticleShould There Be Housing Size Minimums?
Last week, Seattle’s City Council was discussing micro-housing regulation–a discussion that’s been going on for a while. About a year ago, we looked at a proposal that sought to define a...
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A Case for Bringing Back the Residential Hotel
Up until its condominium conversion in 2005, Barbizon 63 was a paragon of compact, efficient living in New York City. For most of its life, the building was used as a women’s “residential hotel.”...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Live Near a Micro-Apartment Building
Much of the controversy surrounding the addition of micro-apartments in Seattle involved what might happen should the micro-apartment dwellers move into neighborhoods that had theretofore been the...
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The House Behind House
We love ADUs. They have the power to do the near-impossible: pack more housing into suburban and other low-density areas that were not designed to be dense. And given that they’re typically wedged into...
View ArticleOops! We Just Destroyed Affordable Market-Rate Housing. Our Bad.
This site has long followed Seattle’s ongoing micro-apartment saga. Here’s a somewhat quick summary: for the last several years, Seattle developers had been fast and furiously building low to medium...
View ArticleSeattle’s Micro Apartment War
Add micro apartments to wind turbines and public bike stations to things people don’t want in their backyards. Seattle’s micro-apartment controversy continues as news headlines and this letter we...
View ArticleWhat is a Micro Apartment?
Amidst its turmoil, the City of Seattle has drafted a proposal for establishing citywide micro-apartment (aka “micro-unit” and “micro-housing”) regulations. The good news is that “DPD [Dept. of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seattle’s Urban Boom
Forget NYC and San Francisco as the American leaders in smart urban growth. Seattle is where it’s at. The two former cities–with their tight geographies and urban grids conducive to walking, public...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Tiny, Passive House Ain’t No Wimp
Don’t be fooled by its peace-loving name, few things will defend you from the elements like a Passive House. If you’re not familiar with the term, Passive House (aka Passivhaus) is a German-born set of...
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What It’s Like to Live in a Micro-Apartment
As a New Yorker, burdened as I am with our stereotypical New York-centricity, it kinda pains me to admit that Seattle is America’s micro-apartment capital. Seattle’s micro-apartment’s might lack the...
View ArticleShould There Be Housing Size Minimums?
Last week, Seattle’s City Council was discussing micro-housing regulation–a discussion that’s been going on for a while. About a year ago, we looked at a proposal that sought to define a...
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