Cities across the world continue to grow, and with that growth comes a shift in how people live. Rising housing costs, dense urban populations, and a desire to stay close to work, culture, and ...

What is a micro-apartment? The web site Realtor.com calls it the "urban equivalent of a tiny house" — a small dwelling, typically under 300 square feet, some as little as 100 — that is gaining ...

Interior designer Julya Grundberg shows off a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment during an exhibit displaying a transformable "micro-unit" at the Museum of the City of New York January ...

Micro-units took off as a rental trend in the Twin Cities roughly a decade ago. They are compact apartments, often railcar-shaped. Their origins are traced to high-density solutions from 1970s Japan. ...

As typical rent prices across the U.S. reach more than $2,000, many Americans struggle to find affordable rental housing, according to recent research from Zillow.com. As new graduates seek apartments ...

Step inside this beautifully organized 260 sqft Japanese micro apartment, designed by architect Nicholas Gurney and inspired ...

When Alterra Property Group converted a vintage Center City office tower to apartments in 2015, the 60 micro-units in the Avenir at 1515 South Chestnut St. were a big hit. Despite skepticism from ...

Malta's Studio NiCHE has revealed its latest project, which transforms a centuries-old karrejja (a narrow, often vaulted passageway typical of 16th-century Maltese architecture) into a striking ...

A developer will be able to build the six micro-apartment buildings that the city of Santa Monica moved to block earlier this year. WS Communities, a spinoff of developer NMS Properties, threatened to ...

A historic office building with ties to the region’s paper industry is getting a new life, Wisconsin, as a micro-apartment community designed to serve resid ...