A design change that aims to unlock housing density
Mike Mariano and partner Grace Kim lived for several years in a 12-storey condo project in Seattle’s Belltown neighbourhood, not thrilled with the feel of it.
It was a conventional apartment building, with long, lightless hallways down the middle of each floor, each unit with a window on just one end, building rules that dictated no personalization of any kind on individual doors, and little communication with other residents.
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