The House Detective: NYC Micro-Apt Winner!

Mayor Bloomberg announces My Micro NY is winner of quest for new micro-apts.

Pix etc via businessinsider> http://tinyurl.com/ag88frn

The House Detective: chic Modular Home

A bicycle rack-inspired modular home, this beauty comes flat-packed in a 4-by-10-by-3 foot box.

Details:  http://su.pr/7ehWbn

The House Detective: Stitched Plywood Shelter

Chilled to the bone? Seek this temporary shelter in Copenhagen; made of stitched plywood, with central hearth. 

More pix & story at designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bj87akx

House of Glass

13-ton, optical-glass wall of Japanese house protects and projects an urban garden.

Story & pix via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/at3a5ce

Poet Findlay's Goose Hut

"Goose Hut" by poet Ian Hamilton Findlay restored in Scotland. It's made of heather and wood.

Story and pix of garden via gardenista>http://tinyurl.com/amkyujd

Mouse House Gene?

Mouse house-building DNA discovered, says New York Times. We need to know if humans have a similar gene.

Story via NYT> http://tinyurl.com/ar6gsn5

ARTOPIATECTURE PREDICTS!

Residential Architecture predicts more family cluster-housing. Self-sustaining communities. Lock those gates! Pull up that drawbridge! On the other hand, ARTOPIATECTURE predicts pads, pods, cabins, retreats, and new mobile, prefab and floating homes. Small is the new luxurious. Temporary is the new eternal.

Residential Architecture> http://tinyurl.com/b4uldt7
Artopiatecture> http://pinterest.com/johnperreault1/retreats/