First prize in the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition has been awarded to The D*Haus Company for its vision for elevated Georgian-style terraced houses designed for flooded city streets. More about Vision for flood-proof Georgian townhouses wins Dezeen and MINI Living competition
Hundreds of chateaux have been abandoned at the Burj Al Babas luxury housing development in central Turkey, after its developer filed for bankruptcy, as shown in this drone footage. More about Drone footage reveals hundreds of abandoned Turkish chateaux
Opposite Office has proposed redesigning and extending London's Buckingham Palace to create the Affordable Palace where 50,000 people would co-habit with the queen. More about Opposite Office redesigns Buckingham Palace as co-living space for 50,000 Londoners
Cacti gardens, a yoga studio and a saltwater swimming pool with sunbathing platforms are among the features at a large housing complex in Los Angeles, designed by US firms Commune and VTBS Architects. More about Commune incorporates resort-style amenities into Hollywood apartment complex El Centro
Henning Larsen has completed The Wave, a residential project on the Vejle Fjord in Denmark, according to the original vision of the practice's late founder. More about Henning Larsen completes The Wave housing with rollercoaster-like roofs in Denmark
David Chipperfield Architects has teamed up with Karakusevic Carson Architects to create a pair of matching, hexagonal housing towers on an estate in east London. More about Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield unveil sister towers in London's Hackney
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has revealed designs for a prefabricated housing scheme in Gothenburg, Sweden, which aims to be an alternative to traditional terraced houses and prioritises green space. More about Tham & Videgård Arkitekter unveils plans for prefabricated Vertical Village II in Sweden
Architecture studio SO? has created a prototype floating house on Istanbul's Golden Horn, which could be used as emergency housing following an earthquake in Turkey's largest city. More about SO? builds prototype floating house for post-earthquake Istanbul
Architect Carlo Ratti has worked with Indian non-profit WeRise to develop a system of low-cost housing with a prefabricated core that homeowners can build any structure they like on top of. More about Carlo Ratti develops Livingboard prefab housing system for rural India
More than 280,000 homes could be built in unused space above train tracks, tube lines and the overground network in London according to engineering firm WSP's Out of Thin Air – One Year On report. More about Over 280,000 homes could be built above London's railway tracks
Modular sleeping pods made from easy-to-assemble wooden panels are providing temporary accommodation for homeless people in London. More about Wooden sleeping pods by Reed Watts made available to homeless people in London
Parasitic structures, 3D-printed homes, floating architecture and even flying houses feature on the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home competition shortlist, which is unveiled today. More about 15 urban homes of the future revealed on shortlist for Dezeen and MINI Living competition
Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a low-rise apartment building that challenges Toronto's planning policies, which preference single-family homes and fail to address population growth. More about Batay-Csorba envisions Triple Duplex as alternative to traditional housing in Toronto
A 35,000-square-metre eco-village is going to be built in Copenhagen using recycled concrete, wood and glass. More about UN17 Village to be built in Copenhagen with recycled materials
Housing, health facilities and social spaces are all contained within this plant-covered Singapore building by WOHA, which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. More about WOHA creates green community for senior citizens with Kampung Admiralty in Singapore
Dutch firm MVRDV has completed an enormous apartment building in the Indian city of Pune, featuring a series of connected blocks with sloping roofs, which branch out to enclose multipurpose courtyards. More about MVRDV's "mountainous" Future Towers provides low-cost accommodation in India
Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. More about Airbnb's Backyard initiative to roll out house designs in 2019
Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. More about Kwong von Glinow designs Hong Kong high-rises containing multi-storey homes
This housing block in Mexico City, designed by locally based HGR Arquitectos, is arranged around a large circular courtyard where a Japanese guava tree grows. More about Mexico City housing by HGR Arquitectos surrounds circular Japanese-style garden
American studio Johnsen Schmaling Architects has completed an urban infill project near downtown Sacramento that consists of six modest-sized homes with multi-coloured facades. More about Colourful louvres animate Johnsen Schmaling's Oak Park Housing in northern California