Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris
Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More
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John Lewis to repurpose car parks to create 10,000 homes
UK department store John Lewis has revealed its plans to become a residential landlord by converting its own shop car parks into rental housing across the UK. More
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Pink brick clads Baigorria housing project in Argentina by BBOA
Architecture firm BBOA has completed a government-backed housing scheme in Argentina featuring irregular residential blocks clad with pale pink bricks. More
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Poor-quality housing is "the number one thing holding the UK back" says Bulb CEO
The UK needs to drastically improve its "poorly insulated, draughty" homes if it is to eradicate its carbon emissions, according to Hayden Wood, CEO of renewable energy supplier Bulb. More
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Foster + Partners designs buildings for Dogpatch Power Station in San Francisco
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to turn the site of a decommissioned power plant on the San Francisco waterfront into a mixed-use development. More
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CPDA incorporates "secret garden" into Mexico City apartment building
Mexican firm CPDA Arquitectos has completed a residential building that features a stone-clad exterior and a lush courtyard that is not visible from the street. More
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Key Operation clads Kannai Blade Residence with narrow concrete fins
Tokyo studio Key Operation has completed an apartment building in Yokohama covered with thin concrete panels that create a random pattern of light and shadow across the facades. More
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HTA Design builds "world's tallest modular housing scheme" in Croydon
British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a two-tower housing scheme in Croydon, south London, which the studio says is the world’s tallest residential modular building. More
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LOHA clads John R 2660 apartment building in Detroit with cedar
American architecture firm LOHA has completed a housing block with cedar cladding and a stepped form in a once-rundown Detroit neighbourhood that is undergoing redevelopment. 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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Green wall grows five storeys up San Francisco apartment block
Architecture office Woods Bagot has covered an apartment block in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighbourhood with a green wall that climbs up five floors. More
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LOHA creates Westgate1515 student apartment complex in Los Angeles
Architecture firm LOHA has incorporated terraces and covered balconies into a black-and-white student housing building that occupies an entire city block in West Los Angeles. More
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SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico
New York firm SO-IL has completed this low rise yet high-density affordable housing development in León, Mexico, with apartments arranged around courtyards. More
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Charged Voids completes Chandigarh student housing informed by Le Corbusier
Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed a student housing block in a suburb of Chandigarh, featuring brightly coloured surfaces and columns that reference the architecture of pioneering modernist Le Corbusier. More
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UNStudio designs Munich apartment block with reconfigurable interiors
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has unveiled its Van B residential building in Munich, which will have plug-in furniture modules so that its apartments can be reconfigured. More
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Vladimir Radutny Architects wraps Chicago housing block in corrugated steel
Vladimir Radutny Architects has created an apartment block at 2016 W Rice in Chicago that is clad in corrugated steel cladding broken by terraces. More
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RIBA "frankly shocked" by limit of £3.5 billion cladding-removal plan
The Royal Institute of Britsh Architects has criticised the British government for its "naive" decision to only fund the removal of Grenfell-style cladding on housing over a certain height. More
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Windows punctuate board-marked concrete facade of DL1310 in Mexico City
New York architecture studio Young & Ayata and Mexico City office Michan Architecture collaborated on DL1310, an apartment block with an exposed concrete facade. More
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Irregularly stacked cubes form exterior of ODA apartment building in Dumbo
Architecture firm ODA has completed a residential building in Brooklyn with a facade formed of irregularly stacked boxes made of concrete and glass. More
