Hotels everywhere are embracing what the Japanese have done for decades—crunching rooms down to smaller-than-200-square-foot pods. Nine years ago, midtown Manhattan’s Pod 51 Hotel ushered in the era of the “microhotel” with the mainstream U.S. debut of minimalist...
What is believed to be the world’s tallest modular building made its debut Tuesday in Brooklyn, a 32-story rental tower constructed with prefabricated units stacked like Legos. Forest City Ratner Cos. is now leasing the building, known as 461 Dean. It has 363 studios...
With college enrollment rates continuing to rise, the need for student housing may be at an all-time high. Build the cost of new dorms into already steep student fees and the equation can be unsettling, to say the least. Enter modular dorms, an alternative form of...
Jean Prouvé always said to never copy—to go ahead and do something different. According to his grandson and architect Serge Drouin, that’s why, after dropping out of school at the age of 14, the future French design icon apprenticed with a Parisian...
Bill and Abbie Burton have experienced their share of construction drama. The Solana Beach, California–based landscape architects have been working together for 25 years, overhauling landscapes and buildings alike. So when the time came to build a vacation house on...
A persistent labor shortage of construction workers across the U.S. is prompting some of the nation’s largest home builders to experiment with a model they once derided: factory production. In the U.S., only about 2% to 3% of homes built in recent years are classified...
