Architecture studio Bo-Daa has designed Treehouse, a co-living complex in Seoul that is a stack of micro-apartments surrounding a planted atrium in a triangular concrete block. More about Treehouse is a sloping block of co-living apartments with a tree-filled atrium
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has built social housing in Los Angeles featuring a green roof, herb garden, a community centre and retail spaces to foster wellness and community for those in need. More about LOHA tops MLK1101 housing for Los Angeles' homeless with sloped green roof
Goldsmith Street is a Passivhaus and high-density social housing scheme by Mikhail Riches in Norwich, England, which is shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. More about Mikhail Riches creates energy-efficient terraced streets as social housing in Norwich
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained planning permission for a development of micro homes made from shipping containers with green roofs in Aylesbury, England. More about Shipping-container micro homes with green roofs planned for UK
Residences that take cues from the canal houses in Belgium and the Netherlands, and minimal wood-clad homes in Scandinavia feature in this new development on the outskirts of Atlanta. More about Steve Nygren integrates European housing typologies in new Atlanta neighbourhood
New York firm SO-IL has envisioned a six-storey, concrete apartment building for León, Mexico, which is meant to offer an alternative solution for the country's low-cost housing shortage. More about SO-IL designs affordable housing for urban centre in growing Mexican city
Four projects have been shortlisted for the first Neave Brown Award for Housing including a housing estate designed by Karakusevic Carson Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. More about David Chipperfield and Karakusevic Carson Architects shortlisted for inaugural Neave Brown Award for Housing
British philosopher Roger Scruton has returned to the Building Better Building Beautiful housing commission, from which he was sacked three months ago for making controversial comments about Chinese people and Jewish philanthropist George Soros. More about Roger Scruton returns to head up UK housing commission
A sinuous facade of stepped terraces envelops MAD's UNIC apartment tower, which is nearing completion in Paris, France. More about MAD's first European building nears completion in Paris
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