Apartment buildings that are hollow in the middle, enclosing a centre courtyard are much more common in Europe than here in North America, and I really like them from a design perspective, though I’ve never lived in one. Do you or did you live in this type of building? Regardless, what do you think …

In my city, there doesn’t seem to be any two-bed one-bath apartments, if you want two bedrooms, your only choice is to also have two bathrooms. The majority of two-bedroom floorplans I’ve found online also reflects this. Is there a reason why having one bathroom for two bedrooms is so unpopular? I c…

[The Nazis were big on stripping stucco off buildings](https://books.google.com/books?id=SicxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT324&lpg=PT324&dq=Entschandelung+stucco&source=bl&ots=3pJ_Lur2RJ&sig=ACfU3U2O58EwjgyEnN-DcgcdppKupQKPJg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipvdeOnLrtAhW0HjQIHfVYB_IQ6AEwDHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=Entschandelung%…

This makes me feel much better about my curmudgeonly opinion that contemporary trends forgoing even basic window trim are Bad and Should Feel Bad. Trim feels pretty minimal next to these bad boys. …