Housing
MVRDV’s letter-shaped housing blocks will spell out HOME across old army barracks
Climbing plants and asymmetric balconies surround Buchner Bründler’s Garden Tower
Wave-like facades wrap 3XN’s aquatic centre in southern Sweden
Apartment tower by Handel Architects built next to historic Manhattan cathedral
COBE and Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects complete warehouse-inspired housing for Copenhagen harbour
White irregularly stacked boxes form social housing in France by Poggi + More
Arches puncture brick facade of Amsterdam apartment block by WE Architecten
Pollard Thomas Edwards completes UK’s first over 50s co-housing scheme
BIG and Barcode Architects unveil terraced block for IJburg waterfront
EFFEKT’s Thurøhus apartments feature textured brick facades and a staggered roof
Edouard François creates plant-covered housing block to disperse seeds across Paris
Haptic designs elderly housing for Norway to encourage residents to socialise
Safdie-esque extension proposed for Sydney’s brutalist Sirius building
Pedro Ferreira converts abandoned Porto house into flats with pine and marble surfaces
Weston Williamson proposes incremental building to combat Palestinian housing shortage
Arqmov Workshop covers Mexico City apartment block in small wood squares
Arqmov creates Mexico City apartment block with angled windows and coloured panels
Moon Hoon creates housing with owl-like features in South Korea
MAD’s Fake Hills housing features topography-inspired roofline and massive hollows
Jean-Marc Bonfils reinterprets traditional Lebanese architecture with East Village apartment tower
Viñoly, Meier and KPF design luxury towers for Manhattan waterfront
Sliding shutters cover Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes’ Parisian apartments
Shutter-covered towers give bedrooms sea views at Lebanese housing complex
