Explore Micro-Apartments at the City Museum This Weekend
January 25, 2013 | Eugene Reznik
This week, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the winner of a contest to design the future of NYC living — 300-some-odd-square-foot micro apartments, packing in more people into smaller spaces with higher ceilings and still comically high rents. (Bloomberg plans to skirt legislation that prohibits building new apartments smaller than 400 square feet by constructing the first of such buildings on city-owned land.)
This weekend, architects of these types of spaces, Stan Allen, Deborah Gans and Rafi Segal, will lead tours of a full-size model of a 325 square foot micro-apartment at the Museum of the City of New York, where “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers,” opened on Wednesday.
The shitty Ikea-knockoff showroomexhibition was made possible by grants mostly from a bunch of banks and realtors. Make of that what you will.
“Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers,” Various Architects, Jan 23 – Sep 15, Museum of the City of New York(Photo: John Halpern, Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York)
Over the summer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a request for proposals to design, build, and run a building full of 275- to 300-square-foot apartments on East 27th Street. The units are smaller than the city's regulations currently allow, and would serve as a pilot program for downsized living. "Research has shown that…
Maybe you saw those 'aerial' photos last week of Hong Kong's cramped apartments where "square-footage count routinely dips into double digits"? Today, the Daily News has dug up photos of similar housing over in Tokyo where "communal" spaces make Bloomberg's micro-apartments look like mansions. This morgue-like housing kind of brings…
This morning, we told you Mayor Bloomberg was set to unveil the winner of a contest to design a 300-square-foot apartment that would serve as a small-centric pilot for the future of NYC living. The winners, Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development Corp, and nARCHITECTS, presented the renderings above. They'll be…
