you may notice it is a four-sided enclosed courtyard house with a very small opening overhead. For more than 2,000 years, this type of four-sided enclosed courtyard house was typical in China ...

and had taken to living in a small, dilapidated house in the courtyard of her parents' residence outside the city. Fed up with the poor conditions, Mrs. Fan (who declined to give her full name for ...

One of architect Paolo Sola’s recent projects is a 280-square-foot pied-à-terre, but as soon as you cross the threshold and ...

The house includes a compact central kitchen, double bedroom, exterior tiny courtyard with bathtub, bathroom with full shower and separate toilet, and a multipurpose living zone. The open living ...

Pulling together the design of a small urban courtyard garden is always a joy ... to include should be in proportion to the ...

open onto small landscaped external courtyards. Save this picture! Courtesy of Sanjay Puri Architects PVT Ltd Angled in different directions with volumetric variation, the house is built almost ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny house in Pompeii that is filled with ... smaller than normal and unusually lacks the open central courtyard – known as an atrium – that is typical of ...

So this house has a small south-facing courtyard, to create a year-round sheltered spot. "From the courtyard, you can see through the house to the sea," she adds. The nearby cottages sit well ...

The house forms an L-shape leaving a small triangular entrance courtyard paved in brick, with steps bringing the house up above flood level. The interior layout has been designed around the client’s ...

Homes can be expensive in Beijing, so a woman known as Mrs. Fan ended up living in a small and dilapidated house in the courtyard of her parent's residence outside the city. She still wanted to ...

In typical Roman style, the rooms were arranged around a courtyard (or atrium), which was open to the elements, allowing rain to collect in a small sunken ... The courtyard house is one of ...