Whether a suburban powder room or the middle chamber of a railroad flat, a windowless room throws out the same decorating challenge: how to compensate for zero sunlight and a nagging claustrophobic ...

Thousands of windowless rooms like this one have been built near the University of Texas at Austin. Juan Miro In the past few years, the city of Austin, Texas, has approved the construction of ...

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams caught the ear of the real estate industry this week when he suggested that changing building codes could ease the city’s acute housing shortage. One pitch Adams made at ...

“Did you know that many UT students are renting windowless rooms in the brand-new buildings in West Campus?” I have asked many architects in Austin this question. Most of them answer with a mix of ...

Have you ever lived in a bedroom without a window? They're not rare, especially in student housing, including in Austin, Texas, where developers have built thousands of them. But as Audrey McGlinchy ...

Alarmingly, hundreds of students live in windowless rooms around the University of Texas. For centuries, convicts and poor immigrants were crowded in windowless rooms in prisons and tenement slums.

In the past few years, the city of Austin has approved the construction of thousands of windowless rooms in new apartment buildings next to the University of Texas at Austin. Last month, the Austin ...

In our latest roundup, we look at houses where solid, windowless walls create privacy and intrigue by hiding interior spaces from the outside world. While these homes may have austere street-facing ...

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