Kakko House by Yoshihiro Yamamoto is a 3.4-metre-wide home in Japan
Japanese architect Yoshihiro Yamamoto has sandwiched a house with a width of just 3.4 metres between a pair of existing properties in Osaka (+ slideshow). More
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Josep Ferrando slots a skinny house between two existing properties in Spain
Concealed behind a historic facade, this narrow residence by Barcelona architect Josep Ferrando is wedged between the party walls of a pair of houses in the Spanish city of Sant Cugat. More
JMY Architects combines living and retail spaces on a narrow site in Busan
An apartment, community space and shop are accommodated in this skinny building squeezed onto a narrow plot in the South Korean city of Busan by local office JMY Architects (+ slideshow). More
Micro house by Architekturbüro Scheder is raised off the ground on stilts
This tiny two-room house, measuring just three metres wide, is raised above a grassy slope on metal legs in Hohenecken, Germany (+ slideshow). More
Be-Fun Design builds a row of four super-skinny houses in Japan
In keeping with the growing trend for skinny houses, Japanese studio Be-Fun Design has completed a terrace of four narrow residences on a plot of just 60 square metres. More
Bow House by Edwards Moore has a narrow middle that frames a patio
This Melbourne home by local studio Edwards Moore narrows down to less than four metres at its centre to make room for a narrow patio along the southern boundary (+ movie). More
New Pinterest board: skinny houses
Following our special feature exploring unusually slimline homes, we've created a Pinterest board filled with the skinniest houses from the pages of Dezeen.
10 super skinny houses
Following our special feature on skinny houses, we've put together a collection of some of the best examples of slimline residences from the pages of Dezeen. More
Sliver House by Boyarsky Murphy Architects slots into a three-metre-wide space
Boyarsky Murphy Architects sandwiched this glass-fronted family residence between two terraced houses in west London, on a site less than three metres wide at the front. More
Skinny houses: "it's amazing how important one inch of space becomes"
Feature: narrow homes have become increasingly popular in Japan, but can these awkwardly shaped residences offer housing solutions to other cities around the world, asks Dezeen deputy editor Amy Frearson. More
Sinjinmal Building by Studio GAON occupies its site like "a book in an empty shelf"
Measuring just four metres wide, this glass and concrete cultural building has been inserted between an industrial district and a historic 17th century house in Incheon, South Korea (+ slideshow). More
Katsutoshi Sasaki's Imai house is just three metres wide
Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates built this unusually skinny house on a three-metre-wide site in a residential district of Aichi Prefecture, Japan (+ slideshow). More
ANH House by Sanuki + Nishizawa
Vietnamese architects Sanuki + Nishizawa have adapted the prototypical Vietnamese tube house to create a tall, narrow residence that lets daylight penetrate its walls and floors (+ slideshow). More
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Promenade House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed a family house in Shiga, Japan, that is 27 metres long but only 2.7 metres wide (+ slideshow). More
Park House by Another Apartment
Japanese studio Another Apartment has completed a house with an asymmetric roof on a narrow site in suburban Tokyo. More
4.5x20 House by AHL Architects Associates
A narrow atrium brings daylight into windowless rooms on four storeys at this renovated house in Hanoi by Vietnamese office AHL Architects Associates. More
Flag by Apollo Architects & Associates
This narrow house on a high street in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates features a glazed ground-floor gallery (+ slideshow). More
Slim House extension by Alma-nac
London studio Alma-nac has staggered the floors of this extension to a 2.3 metre-wide terraced house in south London to help bring natural light in through a sloping roof. More
World's narrowest house by Jakub Szczesny
Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world's narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across at its widest point. More
House in Tamatsu by Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio
This narrow house in Osaka by Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio contains hollow white boxes for stairs and a skewed upper storey. More