Jack Kerouac’s boarding-house now co-living for creatives by Kirsten Dirksen on November 7, 2020 In 1953 Jack Kerouac stayed here for part of the spring, but when Sara McEre bought the former 19th-century boarding …
Habitat 67 stacks 354 prefabs that get urban/suburban balance by Kirsten Dirksen on January 12, 2020 Habitat 67 was a 1960s experiment in dense, downtown housing that tried to combine the best of urban and suburban …
LA coliving: a permeable intersection between social/privacy by Kirsten Dirksen on January 8, 2017 Calling it “a social network with an address”, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elvina Beck created PodShare, a coliving experiment where dozens …
Capsule hotel, ancient city: sleeping in a Kyoto pod for $40 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 14, 2015 In the late ‘70s, Metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa (designer of the Nakagin capsule tower) dreamt up “a hotel for 2001”. The …
Nakagin: 140 plug and play capsules float in metabolist tower by Kirsten Dirksen on August 9, 2015 Resembling clusters of space pods stacked 13 stories tall, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is the world’s first example of capsule …
Tokio: silenciosa, abrumadora y experimental, según el nivel by Nicolás Boullosa on June 19, 2015 Si la solución a algunos de los retos de la humanidad en las próximas décadas son las ciudades, tanto por …
