The act of cutting and copying is transformational due to a material shift. Rachel Whiteread’s House near Bethnal Green (1992), Deiner and Deiner’s Naturkundemuseum in Berlin (2006), Francois Roche’s Fouquet’s Barrière in Paris (2006) are three examples of architecture letting one style cast the first stone.

Four design options for a micro 3m wide single family house in Islington, London.

With planners pushing infill housing as a means to garner greater spatial economies from the urban fabric, it is worth considering this project in Russia that truly maximises floor area ratios…