Yves Béhar designs "world's first 3D-printed community" for Latin America
Designer Yves Béhar has revealed plans to build 3D-printed houses for an impoverished farming community in Latin America. More
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Charles Cunniffe Architects completes affordable housing complex in Colorado ski town
Tiny homes, an apartment building and a boarding house make up the Virginia Placer development, which Charles Cunniffe Architects has designed for a Rocky Mountain community in Colorado with a dearth of low-cost housing. More
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Gus Wüstemann creates affordable apartment block almost entirely from concrete
Concrete-lined living spaces extend out onto angular balconies at this low-cost housing block in Zurich, designed by locally based studio Gus Wüstemann. More
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Opposite Office redesigns Buckingham Palace as co-living space for 50,000 Londoners
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
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Find innovative examples of low-cost housing on our Pinterest board
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to low-cost housing solutions, with new additions including MDRDV's mountainous structure in India and a cuboidal concrete family home in Portugal. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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MVRDV's "mountainous" Future Towers provides low-cost accommodation in India
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
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Affordable brick housing built for Argentinian teachers
Argentinian architecture studios Nomada and Eypaa have created a row of five low-cost apartments blocks for school teachers in Córdoba, Argentina. More
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Plugin House built in Boston to demonstrate potential for use in US backyards
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office is using a pop-up pavilion to show how a prefabricated home designed for China's hutongs could be used by cities in the US to help tackle the housing crisis. More
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BIG builds "winding wall" of affordable housing in Copenhagen
Bjarke Ingels' firm has completed Dortheavej Residence, an affordable housing development in Copenhagen made up of prefabricated modules stacked on top of one another. More
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Gad Line+ Studio creates low-cost housing in rural Chinese village
This affordable housing development in China's Fuyang District, near Hangzhou, features sloping tiled roofs and a pared-back material palette inspired by the region's vernacular architecture. More
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Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA
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
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Prefab metal structures form True North housing complex in Detroit by EC3
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
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Kanye West expected to begin Yeezy Home architecture venture with social-housing project
Kanye West's first foray into architecture is expected to be a prefabricated concrete affordable-housing project, which has emerged a month after he announced a new arm of his Yeezy fashion label. More
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Elon Musk reveals plans to create bricks for low-cost housing
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced plans to turn dirt excavated by his tunnel-digging enterprise the Boring Company into a cheap building material. More
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Low-cost micro home is made from timber and scavenged materials
Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near Bath, England, for just £20,000, thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. More
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Micro apartments in concrete pipes designed to ease Hong Kong's housing crisis
Hong Kong studio James Law Cybertecture has developed a prototype for low-cost, stackable micro homes in concrete pipes, which could slot into gaps between city buildings. More
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Affordable housing and studio concept wins RIBA contest for decommissioned gasholders
London studio Outpost has won a contest seeking ideas for how disused gasholders could be repurposed across the UK, with its concept for a ring of affordable housing and workspaces. More
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Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum
Urban-Think Tank has completed the next phase of its Empower Shack project, bringing safe low-cost housing to residents of South Africa's informal settlements. More
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Llywelyn James proposes affordable cantilevered housing for London's brownfield sites
Royal College of Art architecture graduate Llywelyn James has proposed a series of elevated residential blocks for an undeveloped brownfield land near Thamesmead in London to aid the city's housing crisis. More
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The SHED Project offers micro-homes inside vacant London properties
Self-contained micro homes are being installed inside vacant buildings across London as part of an initiative called The SHED Project, which features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More
