Houses can have more than one staircase for a variety of reasons. More often than not, it’s to enable two different classes of people to not meet each other, such as in this house with its “front” staircase and servants’ staircases. There’s actually also a third staircase connecting the footpath with the basement and used […]
For two years in the early 1990s, I lived in Tokyo’s Nishi-Azabu district in a three-storey house somebody told me had been designed by a Japanese architect who used to work for Charles Gwathmey. I could see how this might have been true for it was a very un-Japanese house and might explain why it […]
Folding Beijing is a 2012 Chinese science fiction short story by Hao Jingfan in which Beijing is divided into the three districts of First Space where the well-off live, and Second and Third spaces where the less well-off live. First Space people live on one side of the coin, as it were, and that side […]
