Tiny Spaces For The Big Apple

Space is at a premium in many big cities. New York, for example, has 1.8 million one- and two-person households, but only one million studios and one-bedroom apartments. So some cities are trying to encourage smaller living spaces.

San Francisco's SmartSpace Micro apartments are about 220 square feet. Vancouver's micro-lofts measure around 225 square feet. And New York City will soon have its own micro-unit building, too.

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winner of the adAPT NYC Competition to create an apartment building with units ranging from 250 to 370 square feet. To give you a sense of how small that is, a two-car garage is about 400 square feet.

The winning project is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS, Monadnock Development LLC and the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, a nonprofit that serves creative arts professionals.

They call their project My Micro NY.

"After my wife and I moved from Boston, we lived in 350 square feet for four years. It's totally possible. But the reason many people move to New York is for the city, not the apartment," Eric Bunge of nARCHITECTS told Here & Now.

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