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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

    India Block | 17 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • 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 ›

    Fiona Hartley | 9 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Alyn Griffiths | 6 December 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Laura Mark | 11 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Katie de Klee | 10 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Amy Frearson | 9 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Alyn Griffiths | 30 September 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Calum Lindsay | 21 August 2018
  • 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

    Jenna McKnight | 19 June 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    Eleanor Gibson | 4 June 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    India Block | 9 May 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    India Block | 31 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    India Block | 16 January 2018 | 25 comments
  • Affordable housing and studio concept wins RIBA contest for decommissioned gas holders

    London studio Outpost has won a contest seeking ideas for how disused gas holders could be repurposed across the UK, with its concept for a ring of affordable housing and workspaces. More

    Jessica Mairs | 9 January 2018 | 6 comments
  • 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

    India Block | 28 December 2017 | 7 comments
  • 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

    Eleanor Gibson | 22 August 2017 | 4 comments
  • 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

    Calum Lindsay | 21 August 2017 | 6 comments
  • Eda Kutluozen proposes affordable housing above tube stations for London's key workers

    Royal College of Art architecture graduate Eda Kutluozen's Vertical Open City project proposes inserting dense affordable housing and public spaces into disused sites across London. More

    Ali Morris | 13 August 2017 | 14 comments
  • RCA graduate proposes low-cost cantilevered homes to combat housing crisis

    This captioned movie explores a proposal by RCA graduate Llywelyn James to tackle London's housing crisis by building 100-metre-long cantilevered structures on the city's undeveloped brownfield sites. More one-minute movies › 

    Danil Boparai | 21 July 2017 | 17 comments
  • Chequerboard facades front Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter's affordable housing in Stockholm

    Stockholm studio Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has completed a cluster of affordable apartment blocks in the Swedish capital, featuring facades with alternating opaque and transparent sections. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 8 July 2017 | 4 comments
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    Arched London townhouses

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    Colourful preschool

  • Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban

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    Timber Revolution


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    Interiors


    Energy-saving Barcelona flat

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    Chipperfield's work "bland"

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    Chipperfield's work "bland"

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    Mosque pavilion

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    Mosque pavilion

  • Exterior of a one-storey open-plan home with glazed walls overlooking the sea

    Architecture


    Chilean beach house

    Architecture


    Chilean beach house

  • Black and white photo of a brutalist residential and commercial building complex with blocks aligned at different angles

    Architecture


    Parisian brutalist buildings

    Architecture


    Parisian brutalist buildings

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    Interiors


    Tbilisi hotel

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    Architecture


    Modular building system

  • Balbek Bureau creates Ukrainian "home away from home" in Antarctica

    Architecture


    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

    Architecture


    Ukrainian house in Antarctica

  • Denim vanity by Harry Nuriev at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

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    Denim furniture

    Furniture


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