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Affordable Housing
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Are Shipping Containers the Future of Affordable Housing?
At Watts Works in Los Angeles, Studio One Eleven has discovered the power of using shipping containers to build affordable housing.
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Historic B’nai Israel Synagogue Gets a New Life as Affordable Housing
Desmone Architects transformed the 1953 Hebrew school and synagogue into a 45-unit apartment complex with 38 affordable units.
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How Koning Eizenberg Is Revolutionizing Multifamily Design by Going Against the Grain
Over the last few years the California has evolved a system of cross grain massing to open homes up to space, light, and community.
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El Borinquen Residence Welcomes Supportive Housing in Vivid Color
Alexander Gorlin Architects’ newest supportive housing project in the Bronx draws on Latin Modernism to enmesh itself in its context.
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A Los Angeles Firm Uses Modular Construction to Create Truly Affordable Housing
KTGY Architecture + Planning's innovative prefab construction technique is helping to add critical density in L.A.
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In Brooklyn, a Supportive Housing Development gets the Big Firm Treatment
Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) provided the design for Edwin’s Place, a 125-unit affordable and supportive development, but getting the project built took a village.
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HopeWorks Station Offers a Sustainable Slant on Transitional Housing in the Pacific Northwest
The LEED Platinum mixed-use complex designed by GGLO combines housing with social services for a net-positive community hub.
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Addressing the Intersecting Challenges of Climate Change, Housing, and Social Equity
A partnership between the Rudy Bruner Award and Northeastern University, recent “Inspiring Design” sessions examined how inclusive places and practices build social capital to drive systemic change.
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Joseph Kunkel is Fast-Tracking Quality Housing for Indigenous People
How the founder of MASS's Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab builds back better—against the clock.
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A Colorful Portland Prototype Reinvents the SRO
Argyle Gardens, the nation’s first affordable housing project to open during the pandemic, was designed by Holst Architecture to also be replicable.
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Inside Victor Body-Lawson’s Mission to Humanize Public Housing
Combining experience at Davis Brody Bond and his own paintings from his studio, the New York architect aims to enhance the lives of residents.
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Moody Nolan Designs a House to Give Away—Land and All
With each Legacy House it builds, the firm helps create ownership one family at a time.
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New Criteria for Affordable Housing: Green and Healthy
An update to the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria certification, available to property owners of low- and moderate-income housing, integrates key aspects of WELL 2.0.
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Six Years in the Making, Berlin’s IBeB Cooperative Housing Development Creates a Tight-Knit Community of Residents
Recently shortlisted for the 2019 EU Mies Award, the 66-unit project's lengthy customization process and ample common spaces created a community from the ground-up.
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In Paris, an Affordable Housing Complex Creates a New Vertical Neighborhood
Designed by Hamonic + Masson & Associates, Rue Camille Claudel offers clever sites for communal gathering and abundant access to the outdoors.
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Profiles
Architect Peter Barber Is Reinventing London’s Housing
Barber, the subject of a recent exhibition at the London Design Museum, is creating practical and fantastical solutions for the city's housing crisis.
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How to Design for Seniors in Increasingly Unaffordable Cities
Metropolis spoke with architect Jonathan Kirschenfeld about strategies for designing affordable, high-quality homes for the elderly.
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In the Wake of Inclusionary Housing, What Needs to Happen Next in Portland
In the Portland offices of TVA Architects, Metropolis’s director of design innovation Susan S. Szenasy led a lively discussion on healthy solutions to affordable housing.
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Studio Libeskind Tapped to Design Affordable Senior Housing in Brooklyn
The new building, located in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, will create 197 affordable residences for the New York City Housing Authority.
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New Exhibition Highlights the Best of European Affordable Housing Architecture
Social Housing – New European Projects, which is on view at the Center for Architecture in New York, showcases 25 stand-out projects.