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Skybridges today are relics of New York City’s past—a formidable symbol of what architects imagined the city’s future could look like. But those that remain are not only few and far between, but also often in a state of disrepair. Despite that, one architecture firm has been working to bring them back into the spotlight, and…
From a purely aesthetic standpoint, I love tiny houses. My own apartment is a little over 300 square feet, most of which is taken up by a Murphy bed. The idea of building an entire free-standing structure where every appliance and piece of furniture can fold into something else is very appealing. And for decades…
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A sign alerts trail walkers in Fairfax County’s Roundtree Park to the remains of a bridge that washed out near Holmes Run. With a mounting backlog of deferred maintenance, there are no immediate plans to fix it. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) For decades, Fairfax County has been a national model for suburban living, a place…
Not again. AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili Until yesterday, it had been almost three months since the last burning skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates. That all changed when a building went up in flames on Monday just outside of Dubai. Several residential high-rises were evacuated by fire in Ajman, a city in Dubai’s metropolitan area. According…
Airbnb, once a saviour from overpriced hotels, has become the new overpriced hotels since becoming the short-term accommodation staple. But with the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork. That’s the idea behind PodShare, a coworking space with beds, which has three locations in Los Angeles….
As San Francisco’s housing shortage gets worse, there’s increasing pressure on tenants living in rent-controlled apartments to vacate so their landlords can start charging a market rate in the rapidly gentrifying city. This pressure often comes in the form of a buyout. Three years ago, for instance, a single mother with kids paid $1,600 per month for…
You can always tell when you’re in a WeWork office. The one I’m visiting is a new one in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. Like many offices of today, it’s spacious and open. There’s a check-in desk staffed by people who appear to be in their early 20s, a wood-paneled, subway-tiled kitchen to my left, and…
But Mr. Chyn argues that this experiment substantially understates the importance of neighborhoods. The problem, he says, isn’t in comparing those who win the lottery with those who lose. Rather, he argues that both the treatment and control groups had already partly inoculated their children against the effects of bad neighborhoods. Only a quarter of…
(J.J. Alcantara/The Washington Post; iStock) A starter home is supposed to be an entry point into the market: a modest property, maybe a two-bed, one-bath, a place a young couple could buy into before all the pets and kids and seldom-used kitchen appliances come along. Buy a starter home, if all goes well, and you position yourself later…