Architect Breaks Down 5 of the Most Common New York Apartments | Architectural Digest

Hi, I’m in Australia and oh my goodness, this was so interesting. The only thing I’d have a problem with is the rubbish piling up outside, but great video and many thanks ❤️👏👏👏👏🦘

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Captivating documentary supported by period pictures, really puts all the architectural terms into a historical perspective for me. I was aware of the tribulations that Londoners had to put up with, and also certain areas of Sydney and Melbourne were similarly poorly designed, so this has been a great insight into the development of housing in New York.

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Uww we I love Merca cause who nicknamed it a shotgun cause that took over I have rarely heard it called a train car

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could you release a version without the background music?

I loved this made me miss architecture school.

People who lived on the 6th floor of a walk up were probably in great shape.

Wealth ruins everything.

This is the worst. "story " ....ever told

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Stoep is actually the sidewalk... Dutch Cape Verdiaan we here in the Netherlands since 1800 🇳🇱

I love how you pointed out "WHY" during this

Nice

Great video!

Great video. Well articulated.

Thank you for sharing the history!

What about the gotham architecture

Loved it “stoop” is not a dutch word for staircase tho😂

So if gentrification didnt happen in soho, they’d be an artists’ district?

I was waiting to see Rex Heuermann giving his thoughts

very nice. I just wandered into your site

I think another type of house that is super popular are the two story apartments in queens! They’re kinda pentagon shaped with three front windows ! Wish to learn more about them

Failure, by design. Nothing more, so much less.
Staying stuck to the page of a failed past is not evolution. It is the definition of stagnation as people fester in these cultural embarrassments.

Thank you, this is so intresting!

Do they call modern studio apartments "efficiencies"? They do in the mid-Atlantic and I always thought it sounded funny.

There are still art galleries in SoHo. Maybe not as many as before, but I feel like the area still has maintained that artistic vibe.

So interesting! Just one thing (maybe others already mentioned it) stoop (stoep) in Dutch means sidewalk, not stairs :)! So maybe the name originates because the stairs lead to the sidewalk?

I only found your videos recently and enjoy them very much. One correction. Stoop as you call it is spelled stoep in dutch. It doesn't mean staircase, but it means sidewalk. Im am dutch.

Stoep = pavement.

Not staircase

I already knew all this stuff. Yay me !! I've always mourned not having a longer association with schooling. Turns out education really doesn't, or shouldn't, end with formal training.
This was a truely excellent review, though. Nice to see others are equally excited.

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Love It this video

It's to me very morally questionable how we used to build buildings, why couldn't people just build buildings to give everyone an ideal life?. Having to put your bathtub in your kitchen area is absolutely insane to me 🙃🙃🙃

Love this guy

Wonderful! Thank you. Came for the general apartment layout knowledge, and unexpectedly learned the reason why 20 NYC blocks is roughly equal to one mile.

What type of building/apartment did the Odd Couple live in?

That was soooo interesting!

This is such a great video. I love how he explains the history of everything so well

In Romania there are also called railroad car, but usually housese had that layout.

Ironic that elevators allowed us to go over 6 stories, and USSR required an elevator for any building more than 5 floors.... interesting how human nature and effective climbing floors distance limited buildings.

I️ could never afford to live in SoHo, but why on earth would you want to let the destroyers of civilization move in? They’ll just mess it up for everyone.

I have lived in different apartments style in nyc and this makes lot of sense also grateful for the progress in this city that has came a long way!

Why the heck don't they build some nice looking bin bays for all that garbage in front of Brownstones?

This answers a lot of questions.

A friend of mine rented an apartment in Manhattan with a bathtub in the kitchen. At the time, it was being played off as a cool thing, but I found it as cool as all the mouse traps set up around the house.

And they wonder why we all want so much stuff ? They being the wealthier classes. Duh, because we were starved of these material things for generations. And generally, those that feel we should live with a lot less are those that are choosing to live with less. And if they decide they don't want to live with less anymore, they have the means to replace their stuff on a whim !