apartment living

You've seen the glossy renders. Glass to the ceiling, views of panoramic city, a rooftop pool that makes it look like it is in Dubai. The apartment life in high-rise buildings has come to be a shortcut to a certain type of aspiration - urban, high-rise, easily contemporary. However, the brochure form of vertical living and the experienced reality can deviate in a surprising way even to the experienced...

There is a distinct type of apartment that does not scream "Luxury" to you as you pass by it. No doorman, no rooftop area to lounge under the clear blue sky, and certainly, there are no fancy towers with glass panels to catch the afternoon rays of sun. You will enter through an open garden, listen to the songs of birds instead of elevator rings, and end up at the front door of a building that actually...