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Low-cost housing: page 4

  • 10 innovative homes built on extremely tight budgets

    Following the UK launch of an affordable micro home that takes less than a day to build, here's a look at 10 properties from around the world that show how comfortable living can be created with limited funds. More

    Trudie Carter | 7 July 2017 | 18 comments
  • Kodasema launches tiny prefab home for £150k in UK

    In a bid to solve the UK's housing crisis, Estonian design collective Kodasema has launched its prefabricated 25-square-metre micro home that takes less than a day to build and can be relocated to make use of vacant sites. More

    Jessica Mairs | 5 July 2017 | 53 comments
  • Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans

    California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More

    John Trujillo | 16 May 2017 | 11 comments
  • Mami House is a "mini bunker" built for a couple on a very tight budget

    Faced with the difficult task of delivering a family house for less than €100,000, Portuguese architect José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira designed this cuboidal concrete property. More

    Amy Frearson | 9 May 2017 | 79 comments
  • Naked House and OMMX offer bare-bones affordable housing for London

    British studio OMMX has teamed up with house-builder Naked House to develop an affordable housing model for London, offering homes stripped back to just their bare necessities. More

    Jessica Mairs | 25 April 2017 | 12 comments
  • Modular affordable housing envisioned for "abandoned" New York airspace

    This conceptual scheme by designers Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee calls for using vacant airspace over existing New York buildings to create affordable apartments and public areas. More

    Jenna McKnight | 20 April 2017 | 9 comments
  • BIG stacks shipping containers to create floating student housing in Copenhagen harbour

    Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 22 September 2016 | 13 comments
  • Cité Radieuse combines elements from many of Le Corbusier's previous designs

    World Heritage Corb: Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille is one of French-Swiss architect's most recognised buildings, and is the last in our series exploring the 17 of his projects added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More

    James Brillon | 27 August 2016 | 4 comments
  • Le Corbusier's Immeuble Clarté housing informed his Unité d'Habitation design

    World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). More

    James Brillon | 6 August 2016 | 1 comment
  • Le Corbusier's Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart was part of a Modernist housing exhibition

    World heritage Corb: two residential units in Stuttgart designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret have recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List along with 16 other projects by the famed French-Swiss architect (+ slideshow). More

    James Brillon | 30 July 2016 | 2 comments
  • Le Corbusier's colourful Cité Frugès workers' housing now hosts fashionable apartments

    World Heritage Corb: the long-neglected housing complex designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier for workers of a sugar factory outside Bordeaux, recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, has found a new life as desirable apartments. More

    James Brillon | 26 July 2016 | 4 comments
  • Three architecture studios complete low-cost housing complex in San Francisco

    A trio of local design firms teamed up to create an affordable apartment building that occupies a full city block in San Francisco's urban core (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 21 July 2016 | 1 comment
  • Alexander Gorlin creates colourful affordable housing for single adults in The Bronx

    New York studio Alexander Gorlin Architects has completed a Bronx apartment block with small studios for low-income tenants, including those who were once homeless (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 18 July 2016 | 6 comments
  • SCI-Arc students build affordable home in low-income Los Angeles neighbourhood

    Students in a design-build program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture have completed a house in a crime-ridden area of Los Angeles, with features included to help occupants feel "safe and secure" (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 22 June 2016 | 25 comments
  • MVRDV to transform old US Army barracks in Germany into affordable housing

    MVRDV has revealed its plans to redevelop a former US Army barracks in Mannheim, Germany, into a "village" of affordable housing. More

    Jessica Mairs | 14 April 2016 | 4 comments
  • Shotgun Chameleon house in Houston designed to help its owners offset their mortgage

    Taking influences from the vernacular houses of the southern US, this low-cost house in Houston by ZDES architects is designed to accommodate a family, but can be divided up to allow the owners to rent out private areas.  More

    Alan G Brake | 19 February 2016 | 6 comments
  • Photos released of New York's first micro-apartment tower by nArchitects

    New York architecture firm nArchitects has released new photos of its modular, micro-unit residential building that is intended to serve as a "systemic new paradigm" for cities facing an affordable housing crisis (+ slideshow). More

    Alan G Brake | 1 February 2016 | 21 comments
  • Cedar-clad house by Yale students could serve as a model for affordable housing

    Graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have designed and built a contemporary family home in a low-income neighbourhood in New Haven, Connecticut (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 20 November 2015 | 36 comments
  • MOS Architects creates modular house made entirely from corridors

    Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: New York-based studio MOS Architects has created an installation that explores the possibility of building homes using only corridor and hallway-like spaces (+ slideshow). More

    Alan G Brake | 23 October 2015 | 5 comments
  • New York's first micro-apartment building to be completed in December

    A modular residential tower designed by nArchitects that is meant to offer a solution to New York's affordable housing shortage is nearing completion (+ movie). More

    Jenna McKnight | 21 October 2015 | 17 comments
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