The Daily Croissant

Hong Kong Cage Homes located in Ngau Liu, Hong Kong

"In a series of massive, Brutalist high-rises, thousands of Hong Kong's poorest residents call wire cages home.

Packed 20 cages to a room, and often stacked three high, the wire cubicles barely offer enough room to sleep. On average, they are six-feet-long by two-and-a-half-feet-wide, providing little privacy from the other 19 people in the space. Conditions in these cage dormitories are utterly squalid, with a single shared bathroom and no kitchen facility."

Self-assembly off-the-grid towns

"To hope to address the emerging, gigantic problems of the 21st century we need bold, gigantic-yet-simple solutions. A likely reality is a population increase to around nine billion people; and committing to new population centres - in ways that are supportable and highly efficient - will be crucial.

Imagine self-assembling a sustainable, off-the-grid town for 10,000 people - in six months. And then doing that in 10,000 places previously considered uninhabitable ..."