Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of windowless rooms like this one have been built near the University of Texas at Austin. Juan Miro In the past few ...

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 ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. In the past few years, the city of Austin, Texas, has approved the construction of thousands of windowless rooms in new apartment buildings ...

In a perfect world, all of our homes and offices would have big, sunny windows where houseplants would thrive. In the real world, we’re not so fortunate. Many of us spend at least part of our days in ...

“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 ...

If you work in an office without a window or have a windowless room at home, you may be wondering whether houseplants are off the table. After all, plants need light to convert carbon dioxide and ...

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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.

I presume by now you’ve heard about “Dormzilla,” the mega-dorm with the windowless rooms designed by 97-year-old billionaire Charles Munger for the University of California, Santa Barbara. The ...