Textured brick facades are complemented by terracotta-toned communal spaces in this elderly housing complex, completed by French office Dominique Coulon & Associés in a suburb of Basel. More about Dominique Coulon adopts terracotta tones for riverside retirement home near Basel
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. More about Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes
London-based architecture studio Coffey Architects has completed 34 retirement flats in Woking, UK, with a warehouse-like silhouette that reflects the site's industrial heritage. More about Coffey Architects creates brick-clad retirement housing on derelict industrial laundry site
Architecture firm BIG's verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie's experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. More about BIG's pixelated complex of "peaks and valleys" for Toronto gains approval
Volumes stagger in and out to create planted balconies and overhangs at the edges of this residential tower that Moshe Safdie's architecture firm has revealed for Quito, Ecuador. More about Safdie Architects' Qorner tower for Quito to feature "hillside of terraces"
Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. More about Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades
Prefabricated housing startup Koto has launched a series of modular one- to four-bedroom cabins that can be customised with add-ons such as saunas and outdoor showers. More about Koto's flexible prefab cabins are designed for a Nordic lifestyle
Property investor Legal & General has unveiled designs by Zaha Hadid Architects for a huge housing development in Bristol, England, on a site earmarked for the city's new arena. More about Zaha Hadid Architects draws up plans for housing on Bristol Arena site
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. More about Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA
Balconies with adjustable covers pepper the brick facade of the Habitat for Orphan Girls designed by ZAV Architects in Khansar, Iran. More about ZAV Architects completes home with veiled balconies for orphaned Iranian girls
Local studio Peripheriques Marin+Trottin and Jumeau Architectes has completed an apartment complex on L'Ile-Saint-Denis in Paris, which features wavy balconies enclosed by a ribbon of perforated metal. More about Undulating balconies wrap housing development on Parisian island
Co-living could help solve some of the UK's biggest social problems, from loneliness to the ageing population, according to research by London architecture office Studio Weave and the RIBA. More about Co-housing not just for "liberals and outcasts" says Studio Weave
Moshe Safdie's firm has completed a set of stepped homes on a hill overlooking the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China. More about Curving shades arch over terraces of Chongqing housing development by Safdie Architects
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the factory-built Futuro House, it's time for a radical rethinking of architectural manufacturing, says Phineas Harper. More about "What if houses were designed like bikes?"
This residential building containing two apartments, in the Iranian city of Yazd, has an angular form influenced by vernacular cottages. More about AWE Office creates apartment building with angular stone-clad facade in Iran
How will we live in cities in 100 years' time? To find out, Dezeen has teamed up with MINI Living to invite readers to design an urban home of the future, with £10,000 to be won. More about Dezeen and MINI Living launch £10,000 contest to design a home for 100 years in the future
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 about Michael Maltzan's Crest Apartments provide housing for southern California's homeless
American studio Process Architecture has completed four drug rehabilitation homes that had to meet stringent design requirements, including a budget of under $200,000 per dwelling. More about Process Architecture designs low-cost houses in Florida for recovering drug addicts
New photographs reveal that MAD's residential complex in California, designed to look like a village on top of a hill, has topped out. More about MAD's Gardenhouse residences take shape in Beverly Hills
American studio EC3 has created a residential development in central Detroit, comprising a cluster of different-sized Quonset huts made of steel and polycarbonate panels. More about Prefab metal structures form True North housing complex in Detroit by EC3