Villa Grow
Villa Grow by Swedish architects Kjellgren Kaminsky, is an adaptable housing concept catering to starting families that can be extended as they grow.
Popularity: 15% [?]
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Tent Colony on Hotel Roof
An unusual method of coining dollars from the waste space on the roof of a building is shown in this view of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego, where about twenty tents have been pitched far above the city. The view is fine, the air good, and as the elevator and other hotel service is at hand, the guests enjoy camp life and city advantages together. The proprietor receives a good rate for these quarters, so that the novel idea is beneficial all around.
Popularity: 8% [?]
A City Made of Waste
The international border between the United States and Mexico at the San Diego-Tijuana checkpoint is the most trafficked in the world. Approximately 60 million people cross annually, moving untold amounts of goods and services back and forth. Zooming into the particularities of this volatile territory, traveling back and forth between these two border cities, we can expose landscapes of contradiction where conditions of difference and sameness collide and overlap.
Popularity: 34% [?]