When cities get crowded, inhabitants get amazingly effective in finding space to live, work, sell, and sleep. We’ve written a couple of articles about Hong Kong’s cage homes, informal rooftop communities and tiny apartments. On her Tumblr blog, Betonbabe shows how all kinds of small buildings and other informal structures appear underneath railway viaducts in Tokyo.
Torafu Architects have transformed a five-storey building in Tokyo into an office and co-living space for the business travellers coming to the city each day.
Ecotone, the latest project designed by Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture intends to be Europe's largest wooden construction.
For Tokyo-based Trunk Hotel, its mission involves not only providing comfortable accommodation rooted in local traditions for its visitors — it also aims to connect them to the local community.
