Tiny home village by Lehrer Architects provides temporary shelter for LA's homeless
Local studio Lehrer Architects has built a community of brightly coloured tiny houses on a narrow strip in Los Angeles for the city's homeless residents. More
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Shipping containers used to build LA housing complex for the homeless
American firms NAC Architecture and Bernards have used shipping containers to form private apartments in a Los Angeles facility for people experiencing homelessness. More
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Lehrer Architects builds colourful village of micro homes for Los Angeles homeless
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is a development of 103 micro homes designed by Lehrer Architects to provide homeless housing in Los Angeles. More
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Emergency housing block in Washington DC has four "uniquely different" facades
Staggered apartments and semi-enclosed play areas animate the exterior of The Aya, a short-term housing block in Washington DC by US firms Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly. More
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UK architects create film to highlight lack of homeless accommodation design guidance
Architects Miranda MacLaren, Polina Pencheva and Heather Macey have created a film titled We Are Not Bad Kids to highlight the need to introduce design guidelines and regulations for homeless accommodation. More
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Perkins and Will designs Dome sleeping unit for LA homeless shelters
A lockable wardrobe and twin-sized bed figure in this modular sleeping unit, which was conceived by architecture firm Perkins and Will in response to the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. More
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Holland Harvey Architects transforms disused London supermarket into homeless shelter
Warm and tactile materials help create a domestic feel inside this north London homeless shelter, which Holland Harvey Architects has created inside a former supermarket. More
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Photos reveal first glimpse of Kanye West's domed housing for the homeless
The first images of Kanye West's prototype housing for the homeless have been revealed, as the musician faces an order to tear down the structures following complaints over construction noise. More
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Kanye West is building Star Wars-themed housing for the homeless
Kanye West's prefabricated affordable Yeezy Home units take inspiration from the Star Wars films and might be used as underground homeless housing. More
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Footage shows construction of temporary sleeping pods for homeless people
This captioned movie shows how pods made from easy-to-assemble, CNC-cut wooden panels by Aldworth James & Bond, designed by Reed Watts, are providing temporary accommodation for homeless people. More
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Morris + Company designs housing for London's homeless in old tube station
Architecture studio Morris + Company proposes transforming a London Underground station into a co-working space and hostel for homeless people. More
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Wooden sleeping pods by Reed Watts made available to homeless people in London
Modular sleeping pods made from easy-to-assemble wooden panels are providing temporary accommodation for homeless people in London. More
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Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a prefabricated homeless housing concept for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation. More
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Michael Maltzan's Crest Apartments provide housing for southern California's homeless
American studio Michael Maltzan Architecture has completed a bright white residential complex in the Los Angeles area, which contains over 60 studio apartments and various support services for its formerly homeless tenants. More
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Parasitic pods attached to buildings could house New York's homeless
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video features a proposal by creative agency Framlab to house the homeless population of New York in parasitic pods attached to the outside of existing buildings. More
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Framlab proposes parasitic hexagonal pods to sleep New York's homeless
New York's empty walls could be covered with honeycomb-like clusters of pods to house the city's growing homeless population, as part of this proposal by creative agency Framlab. More
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Yale architecture students create dwelling in Connecticut for the homeless
Graduate students at Yale University have completed a prefabricated building in New Haven with two apartments that will be leased to tenants who are experiencing homelessness. More
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Salvaged tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing
Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. More
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Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More
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California architecture students design shelters for LA's growing homeless population
Students at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture have conceived a series of shelters for homeless people, ranging from a shopping cart converted into a tent structure to a tiny house made of scavenged material. More
