Budget Breakdown: An Architect Builds a 14-Foot-Wide House in Atlanta for $332K
The skinny house, which resides on an “unbuildable” lot, stretches three stories high in the gabled rear.
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After deciding to transition into residential architecture from a large, international design firm where he’d focused on higher education buildings, architect Alex Wu made himself his first client. He opted to build a spec home on a so-called "unbuildable" lot in Atlanta, Georgia’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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