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    Micro-Apartments: Innovative Living or Future Slums?

    Micro-living complexes are all the rage—but history is littered with failed attempts at living small.
    by Jonathan Glancey Dec 16, 2016 5 minutes
    A resident of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Masato Abe, sits in his room in Tokyo on September 9, 2014. Around half of the tower's 140 capsules, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa in 1972, are currently in use as offices, art studios and second homes. Twenty of the tiny spaces are full-time homes.
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    Soon enough, short of some last-minute appeal on behalf of protesters, Brill Place Tower will be shooting up from a site in Somers Town, a slightly neglected district just north of St. Pancras station in central London. The 25-story building is actually a pencil-thin pair of what dRMM, its inventive young architects, call micro-towers, built on a footprint of just 3,767 square feet. It was granted planning permission this summer, as part of a £1 billion ($1.22 billion) regeneration plan backed by Sadiq Khan, London’s populist new mayor.

    Historic England, a largely government-funded heritage group, is opposed to the tower, perhaps because, like a skinny catwalk model stamping on a wedding cake, it will pierce the neoclassical skyline of white stucco terraces that encircle Regent’s Park. But whatever your architectural taste, Brill Place is very much a sign of the

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