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  • Alejandro Aravena makes housing designs available to the public for free

    Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize winner, is releasing a number of his residential designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the global affordable housing crisis. More

    Jenna McKnight | 6 April 2016 | 19 comments
  • Cement shingles create scaly facade for French barn conversion by GENS

    Fibre-cement shingles cover this gabled barn in northeast France, which GENS: Association Libérale d'Architecture has converted into five apartments (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 10 March 2016 | 1 comment
  • "The cult of self-build and do-it-yourself won't solve the housing crisis"

    Opinion: Walter Segal's self-build houses in south London and Assemble's Turner Award-winning Granby Four Streets project in Liverpool are rightly celebrated, but they're not the answer to the housing crisis, says Owen Hatherley. More

    Owen Hatherley | 29 January 2016 | 3 comments
  • Mae Architects gives second life to unloved Hillington Square housing estate

    Demolition isn't the only solution to the problem of the UK's troubled housing estates according to architect Alex Ely, whose firm Mae Architects is renovating a series of 1960s slab blocks in Norfolk (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 14 January 2016 | 2 comments
  • Bell Phillips rolls out a model for public housing on six Greenwich sites

    Hood-like roofs funnel natural light into these brick terraced houses in London by Bell Phillips Architects, which provide cost-effective homes for elderly and disabled residents (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 16 November 2015 | 6 comments
  • Tatiana Bilbao addresses "urgent need" for housing Mexico's poorest inhabitants

    Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Tatiana Bilbao presents a flexible building prototype that offers a solution to Mexico's social housing shortage during the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 6 October 2015 | 1 comment
  • Richard Rogers' prefabricated housing for homeless people opens in south London

    Designed for charity YMCA, this factory-building housing scheme by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners will provide accommodation for 36 homeless young people in Mitcham, south London (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 8 September 2015 | 9 comments
  • Imaginative housing solutions for LA presented in new exhibition at A+D Museum

    MAD Architects, Michael Maltzan and wHY are among the studios whose work is showcased in a new exhibition about domestic architecture in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). More

    Jenna McKnight | 13 August 2015 | Leave a comment
  • LAN Architecture reclads Bordeaux tower blocks with translucent windows that slide back and forth

    Paris firm LAN Architecture has renovated a group of Brutalist housing blocks in Bordeaux, France, adding sliding polycarbonate windows that create an ever-changing facade (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 17 July 2015 | 5 comments
  • Ampe Trybou Architecten completes a row of houses with a crinkled roof

    Ampe Trybou Architecten added a crinkled roofline to this terrace in Belgium, marking the boundaries between the five homes inside whilst also referencing the buildings that stood on the site before (+ slideshow). More

    Luke Tebbutt | 17 July 2015 | 1 comment
  • Volt Architecten's Belgian housing scheme is designed to look like a farmstead

    This social housing development in Zingem, Belgium, responds to its location between a busy road and an agrarian landscape with a "ranch-like" arrangement of buildings framing a central courtyard (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 20 June 2015 | 10 comments
  • Paris' tallest housing block in over 40 years is clad with gold and silver metal

    These two metal-clad towers featuring stepped forms and angular balconies were designed to prove that, after years of skyscraper restrictions in Paris, height is no longer taboo (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 7 May 2015 | 16 comments
  • Brick bungalows provide social housing for elderly residents in east London

    Tall brick chimney stacks and half gable profiles characterise these east London bungalows by Patel Taylor that are designed to house the area's retired residents (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 1 May 2015 | 27 comments
  • Colboc Franzen's Parisian social housing matches the proportions of its 1930s neighbours

    The stepped rooftops and industrial details of these Parisian council blocks by Colboc Franzen & Associés are designed to integrate the scheme with the neighbouring buildings (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 23 October 2014 | 4 comments
  • ECDM Architectes extends Parisian apartments with wavy balconies

    The curving balconies of this housing scheme by French studio ECDM Architectes create a rippling outline and provide each flat with outdoor space (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 3 October 2014 | 6 comments
  • Antonini Darmon's housing in Nantes presents a patchwork of solids and voids

    Solid panels, perforated screens and recessed balconies create a patchwork of varying transparency on this tower that rises up from one side of a mixed-use development in Nantes, France, by Antonini Darmon Architectes (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 24 September 2014 | 7 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Balfron Tower, London by Ernö Goldfinger

    Brutalism: a 27-storey slab block is next up in our Brutalist buildings series. As the precursor to the larger and more famous Trellick Tower, Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower in east London was a testbed for the architect's utopian housing ideals (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 24 September 2014 | 28 comments
  • Brutalist buildings: Park Hill, Sheffield by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith

    Brutalism: to kick off a series of building studies looking back at classic Brutalist buildings from around the world, we revisit Park Hill – the housing estate that brought "streets in the sky" to Sheffield, England, after the Second World War. More

    Amy Frearson | 10 September 2014 | 8 comments
  • Angular balconies stretch towards sunlight at North Star Apartments by Nice Architects

    This social housing block in Slovakia by Bratislava studio Nice Architects features a series of protruding balconies that angle towards sunlight whilst blocking out the noise of car traffic below (+ slideshow). More

    Matt Hussey | 17 March 2014 | 7 comments
  • Channel 4 to broadcast alternative to "insulting" Brutalist housing estate ident

    News: residents of a Brutalist housing development in London have persuaded Channel 4 to screen a home-made version of the broadcaster's ident after a lengthy campaign against its "inaccurate" portrayal of life on the estate. More

    Ross Bryant | 12 March 2014 | 6 comments
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