Mar 15, 2023
As political activist and 2010 New York gubernatorial mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan once said, “the rent is too damn high.”
For architect and artist Harrison Marshall, the rising cost of living hit close to home in the summer of 2022 as he searched for an apartment in Central London. Dismayed by the high prices in the popular neighborhood, Marshall created his own tiny “Skip House” last December, using a dumpster as the foundation.
“I wanted to hammer home the realities of the rental situation in London by creating something that could be considered better than many of the rooms on offer around London, even though it was in a dumpster,” Marshall said.
