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The narrow Nishizawa building in Tokyo.
The Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California was the location for Gattaca. For more real-life nerdy film locations, click here.
Drop City was an artists’ community that formed in southern Colorado in 1965. Abandoned by the early 1970s, it became known as the first rural “hippie commune”.
cabinporn: My research into the various hut systems in North America led down a rabbit hole. Many of you also wrote to recommend various huts, especially in British Columbia.
I fell in love with this little darling, the R.J. Ritchie Hut, located in Canada’s Banff National Park on the Alberta side.
It’s well-documented and maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.
Urban efficiency: Today’s skyscrapers merge retail, residential, and commercial space into one building, taking up only 60% of a city block. The same combo space spread across a suburban setting would span more than 21 NYC blocks.
Almost a hundred small square windows scattered across the walls, ceilings and roof of a house in Tokyo allow its occupants, a deaf couple and their children, to sign to each other through the walls even when the children are playing outdoors. The two-story house by Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka is named Room Room.
A series of highways flowing through the heart of Manhattan’s West Side, 1964. Photo by Evelyn Hofer.
