How architects gave every apartment in this high-rise its own ‘front porch’

So-Il’s new apartment building, 9 Chapel, offers a novel vision for urban living.

I recently stayed in an AirBnb apartment on the sixth floor of a modern condo building. The elevators were always full because they served more than 40 floors; the narrow hallways were reminiscent of that scene in The Shining (minus the floral wallpaper); and the apartment itself, a studio, was mostly comprised of an open living space and a bathroom separated by a long corridor.

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