This video is produced by the group Never Too Small (NTS), a collective of architects, designers and futurists based in Australia. NTS highlights small housing solutions around the world and shows how old buildings and neighborhoods in cities can be transforned to serve a more sustainable urban lifestyle.
Today, NTS featured a 350 sq ft apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. The video was shot about two weeks before the invasion.
When we think of the soviet era, our minds see brutalist, gray apartment complexes with cramped interiors that seem to suck the joy out of life. Kyiv has been doing things differently in a section of the city called Comfort Town where some of those old soviet apartments are painted in a melange of brilliant colors to mix with the new residential buildings. The result is whimsical and joyful on even the bleakest of winter days.
This apartment featured in this video is located in a newer building in an old vegetable market area of Kyiv that was reimagined in 2017-2019. The designer didn’t let the small space stop her from creating a sunny and fresh interior.
Yes, please. I’d love a little apartment like this in Pittsburgh overlooking one of the rivers. Make it so John Fetterman.
The fate of this building after Russian bombardment is not known.
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” – Tolkien
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