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Hong Kong is so expensive that architects are building 100-square-foot ‘tube homes’ made from concrete water pipes

An architect from Hong-Kong is building micro homes from tubes to help alleviate the city's housing crisis. Image: James Law Cybertecture

Leanna Garfield
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