May 25th 2010 2:30PM
Ever think about living in a cramped, windowless room with a wire roof? No, not like a battery cage chicken, more like, a 25-year old Chinese woman named Zhang Qi. Her insanely-tiny apartment is just 21 square-feet! She's the first to move into what the developer is calling a "capsule apartment" -- and what we're calling... Continue Reading »
Mar 16th 2010 5:05PM
For a while, chickens were all the rage. You could get a coop, install it in your backyard, buy a couple of quality chicks, and presto: fresh eggs for life. (Or for as long as you could stand the clucking and pecking that comes with any kind of chicken ownership.) But because nothing is stable and everything shifts, we're... Continue Reading »
Feb 5th 2010 2:10PM
"It's not nearly as cool having chickens on your farm as in your New York City backyard," Dan Feldman says. Feldman, a thirty-nine-year-old executive who lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, is about to get cool thanks to a chicken coop--the Chicken Ark--designed by Australian expat Drew Waters, a TV news employee by day and... Continue Reading »
Jan 21st 2010 6:59PM
Love them or hate them, IKEA is embraced by apartment dwellers all over the globe. What other superstore inspires a fun widget to turn your name into an IKEA furniture name? Or inspired others to dedicate hours of study to determine the naming convention of furniture categories? But, one-Klippan-does-not-fit-all. For... Continue Reading »
Sep 16th 2009 12:00PM
Your next apartment neighbor might just be.... a chicken. At least, that's what a growing number of people opposed to factory farming conditions would like to see happen in both urban and residential areas. What do you think? Would you live next door to a backyard chicken coop? Continue Reading »
