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Architects Build A Half-Scale Room Inside A Full-Scale Room: "It’s Like Alice In Wonderland."

Photos by Yannis Drakoulidis Real estate developers often trick purchasers by filling model suites with special 7/8 full size furniture to make rooms look bigger. Now Point Supreme Architects are tricking art gallery patrons by building a room at exactly 1/2 full size, and putting it inside the full size room. We love showing small spaces, but usually one can stand up in them. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why We Need Federal Safeguards for Coal Ash

One of the homes destroyed by the December 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash disaster in Harriman, Tenn. Photo by Lyndsay Moseley. How would you like to live near a pile of toxic waste that, every time the wind blew, spread its particles into your neighborhood? Or this—how would you like to live near a pond full of toxic waste that had no liner and could be seeping into the groundwater and nearby waterways with no penalty? This is happening to thousands of Americans right now—and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by-product of burning coal for energy…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could Less Become More Again?

Architectural historian Jane Merkel writes in the New York Times about how immediately after World War II, “it was a time of common sense and a belief that less truly could be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Living With Less: Picnic Table Turns Into Shelter

When Bonnie covered the 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces show at the Victoria and Albert, she missed Sean Godsell’s Picnic Table House , a clever idea where a picnic table by day becomes a homeless shelter by night. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Living With Less: Stylish Swedish Living In 185 Square Feet

Freshome points to a real estate listing for a tiny apartment in a lovely old 1881 building in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is only 185 square feet, but is minimally and tastefully done and looks a lot bigger. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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