Rarely does an architect get to reimagine a Brooklyn row house as thoroughly as architect Sarah Jacoby was able to do on this corner lot at a busy intersection near the Gowanus Canal. “It was exciting ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Alternating tread stairs are terrific for saving space; you only put one foot on a tread at ...

When a local couple bought a three-story brick row house for their family of four, it didn’t have much going for it. Besides being in a state of serious disrepair, it was tiny — just shy 15 feet wide ...