Tata Motors, the folks that brought the $2500 Tata Nano to India, are applying their compact designs and petite price-tags to architecture. Tata Housing Development Company is developing affordable apartments between 213 and 465 square feet starting at $7800. The apartment community will include amenities such as a hospital, school, rainwater harvesting, vermiculture, landscaped gardens, [...]

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In the city of Leipzig, Germany, an architect found an abandoned apartment that the tenant hurriedly left…in 1988…the last days of the Iron Curtain. The entire apartment was exactly as the owner had left it, with shrivelled bread rolls in the cabinet, a pot with dried up food in it on the stove, a wall [...]

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