The fact that Norman Foster wants to start building social housing again after 40 years is a sign that a lot of it may be about to be built, says Owen Hatherley. More about "What could Foster bring to social housing today?"
Openable concrete panels and sun-shading blinds add dynamism to the otherwise austere facades of the Elcano housing block by Madrid-based practice FRPO. More about Rotating concrete shutters enliven facade of housing block in Madrid
Wenink Holtkamp Architecten has converted De Lakfabriek, a 20th-century factory, into 25 industrial apartments in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands. More about Wenink Holtkamp Architecten turns De Lakfabriek tannery into apartments
Over a thousand houses built on the Store Lungegårdsvann lake will form the heart of Trenezia, a sustainable village masterplanned by Waugh Thistleton for Bergen, Norway. More about Waugh Thistleton designs eco-village in a lake to reinvigorate central Bergen
Affordable developer BoKlok, which is co-owned by IKEA and Skanska, has signed a deal with Worthing council in West Sussex to build low-cost housing in the south of England. More about IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK
Curved bow windows animate the facades of VI Castle Lane, a housing block in London designed by architecture studios DROO and NAME. More about DROO and NAME create London apartment block with dramatic curved window bays
The Sprzeczna 4 apartment building in Warsaw, designed by local practice BBGK, is one of the first major prefabricated residential blocks built in Poland since the communist era. More about BBGK explores potential of prefabrication with red concrete housing block in Poland
Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes. More about Balconies branch out from Sou Fujimoto's tree-like tower in Montpellier
Fundamental Approach Architects has transformed the facade of an eight-storey housing block in Tehran using angular screens of perforated brick. More about Tehran apartment block by Fundamental Approach Architects features perforated brick screens
WilkinsonEyre has created "unique student residencies with identity" from prefabricated timber pods at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology in Wiltshire, England. More about WilkinsonEyre completes modular student housing for Dyson Institute
Designing a new housing model for the masses is the most urgent task facing architects today says Jack Self, who has co-curated an exhibition looking at the data behind today's average home. More about Humans "unlikely to survive this century" without radical changes to housing says Jack Self
IKEA's research lab Space10 has teamed up with architecture studio EFFEKT on The Urban Village Project, a vision for subscription-based housing that brings together people of different generations and encourages them to share facilities. More about Space10 and EFFEKT develop subscription housing where you share with your neighbours
A Los Angeles apartment building designed by modernist architect Rudolph Schindler has been updated by local firm Enclosures Architects to provide accommodation for its owners as well as short-term stays. More about Enclosures Architects revives Rudolph Schindler's Manola Court apartments in Los Angeles
Two shipping containers are joined together and topped by an angular polycarbonate extension in this conceptual design for low-cost housing by Peruvian firm TRS Studio. More about TRS Studio envisions shipping containers as affordable housing in Peru
American firm Office of Jonathan Tate has completed a cluster of sculptural white homes on an urban New Orleans site that are meant to attract buyers on a limited budget. More about OJT completes sculptural affordable housing in New Orleans
Rama Estudio has fronted this apartment block in Ambato, Ecuador with wooden louvres to encourage interactions between residents and passersby. More about Wooden shutters shade Edificio Criba apartments in Ecuador by Rama Estudio
Designer Yves Béhar has revealed plans to build 3D-printed houses for an impoverished farming community in Latin America. More about Yves Béhar designs "world's first 3D-printed community" for Latin America
Architecture studio Fala Atelier has converted a former clothing factory in the town of Abragão, Portugal, into a block of six bare apartments. More about Fala Atelier strips back former factory to create "naked" apartments
University of Westminster graduate Matthew Chamberlain has designed a sustainable treehouse to provide starter homes on London's streets, while also tackling the city's high pollution levels. More about Matthew Chamberlain proposes Street Tree Pods to alleviate London's housing crisis
Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative. More about Airbnb's Samara hires Apple industrial designer to join housing initiative