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These Apartments Grow Their Own Air Conditioning

A newly completed 15-unit apartment building in Hamburg, Germany, is already turning heads. Although, with a facade covered in sun-tracking algae tanks, it’s hard not to stare.

9 April 2013

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Spot The Hidden Bed In This Tiny Paris Apartment

Check it out: this Paris apartment is only 12sqm. Where on earth is the bed?

29 March 2013

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A Pretty Little Map Of All The San Francisco Apartments You Can’t Afford

The Internet is a great place to look at things you can’t have, and this clever map that cross indexes San Franscico real estate listings with location fits snugly in that category. At least the nicer districts do.

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This Swiss Apartment Complex Doubles As A Secret Snow Fortress

You might be a little confused, because this looks strikingly similar to the snow fortress in Inception. But no need to watch out for skiing dream assassins — it’s an apartment complex in Lausanne, Switzerland. (As far as we know).

27 March 2013

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We All Want To Live In Monaco’s Odeon Tower, But We’re All Too Poor

Holy crap, look at the Odeon Tower, a slick new skyscraper in Monaco set to be completed in mid 2014. Good luck affording a unit there — the place is expected to be the most expensive building per square metre in the world.

19 March 2013

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Amazing 22sqm Apartment Works Like A Magical Jewellery Box

Did you think a 32sqm apartment sounded impossible to live in? This one’s even smaller at just 22sqm. Somehow, architect Tim Seggerman renovated a New York residence to make that postage stamp-sized space work like magic. And he even made room for a washing machine!

23 January 2013

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The Future Of Apartments Looks Like This

We’re running out of space, and we’re running out of money — and for anyone who wants to live in a city (that would be billions of humans), that’s a problem. Here’s a solution: micro apartments that squeeze full life into a tiny box.

18 January 2013

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Tiny Transforming Apartment Packs Eight Rooms Into 32sqm

Living in New York City isn’t all adventure and dynamism. Unless you are wealthy the way no real person is, you probably have to settle for a living space that is cramped and cluttered. It is the project of Graham Hill, entrepreneur and treehugger.com founder, to come up with an ideal New York apartment — one with a small footprint, both physically and environmentally, and one that offers just as much beauty and functionality as a pad multiple times its size.

12 June 2012

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Apartments Designed For Motorcycles Are A Biker’s Paradise

Heading off to work on a rain-soaked bike is unpleasant, even more so when you’re paying for an expensive apartment with a car-sized garage. So Japanese architects have designed the perfect compromise — an apartment complex that integrates a compact motorcycle garage into each unit.

11 April 2012

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Gehry Crowns Hong Kong’s The Peak With Twisting Apartment Complex

Hong Kong can now claim a Frank Gehry of its own, joining the ranks of Los Angeles and New York, Prague and Bilbao — cosmopolitan cities privileged with a billowing bauble with which to launch a minor tourism or luxury apartment campaign.

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