The House of Tomorrow is a historic building in the Century of Progress Architectural District in Beverly Shores, Indiana. The house was originally part of Chicago's 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition. Designed as the house of the future, this house included its own airplane hangar. Glass walls offered views from every angle and so taxed the experimental air conditioning system that the cooling system failed. (Full article...)

• ... that the 32-story Bridge Apartments in New York City were built directly above a 12-lane freeway?
• ... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
• ... that a conversion plan led to the "Battle of the Century"?
• ... that the Sofia, a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?
• ... that The Sims 2: Apartment Life is not about apartment life?
• ... that Dyson Institute Village's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67?
• ... that a condominium conversion of Manhattan House cost US$1.1 billion and took ten years?
• ... that although the Wilbraham was built as an apartment building for bachelors, more women than men lived there by 1929?

... that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award-winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing?

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