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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Super-Sustainable Dwelling, Built to Push the Limits of Self-Sufficiency, Goes on View at U.N. Headquarters
A collaboration between Yale University, Gray Organschi Architecture, and the U.N., the CLT module was designed and built within a break-neck speed of five weeks.
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.
As Technology Reshapes Cities' Economies and Daily Life, We Risk Widening Inequality
SOM is leading the redesign of the James A. Farley Post Office into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall, a rail station that will anchor real estate development on Manhattan's Far West Side.© Empire State Development,…
Frank Lloyd Wright Redesigned the Suburbs—Today's Architects Should Do the Same
Architects may not like it, but sprawl isn’t going away. Frank Lloyd Wright not only understood that, he dared to reimagine it.
The RPA's Fourth Regional Plan Charts New York City's Future
The planning non-profit seeks to dramatically expand New York City's transportation network while tackling affordability, driverless cars, and climate change, among other challenges.
Bureau V Collaborates With MINI LIVING to Design "Urban Cabin"
As part of MINI LIVING's ongoing URBAN CABIN project, Bureau V aimed to use design and humor to tackle questions of immigration and forced migration.
New Exhibit Explores Race, Gender, Class, and More, in Frank Lloyd Wright's and Harlem's Housing
"Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem & Modern Housing" explores the parallel evolution of Wright's and Harlem's built and unbuilt housing designs.
SHoP Used 4.25 Million Pounds of Copper Cladding for These Manhattan Skyscrapers
The luxury rental American Copper Buildings in New York City are named for the unusual material used on their facades.
Brooks + Scarpa's The Six Raises the Bar for Affordable Housing in LA
A new veteran-focused housing development seeks to offer a more sensitive salve to Los Angeles’s growing homelessness crisis.
Migration Is a Complex and Urgent Spatial Challenge
From the perspective of architecture and design, the migration crisis must go beyond the simple humanitarian impulse, argues Urban-Think Tank.
From Overt to Covert: How Segregation Persists in America
Housing discrimination has not been eradicated. Its methods are simply more subtle, and sophisticated, than ever before.
How England's Brutalist Buildings Are Getting Second Lives
While many Brutalist buildings may have outlived the purposes they were originally intended for, their generosity of space and solidity of construction can make them perfect for adapting to residential use.
This Must Be a Turning Point: Anna Minton on Housing Post-Grenfell
In the wake of London's devastating Grenfell fire, we speak to author Anna Minton about the future of housing in Western cities.
Moshe Safdie Tells the Tale of Habitat 67—And Predicts Housing's Future
On the occasion of Habitat 67’s 50th anniversary, Moshe Safdie addressed a crowd at the Centre de design de l'UQAM and reflected on how we must radically change our thinking if we are to build the dense, liveable cities of our future.
Habitat 67 Re-Imagined as Animal Habitats
Illustrator Chanel Dehond takes inspiration from Moshe Safdie's seminal work, which turns 50 this week, and turns the building into colorful homes for our animal friends.
Barbican Exhibit on Japanese Houses a Veritable Architectural Playground
A new exhibition at the Barbican Gallery highlights Japanese architects’ thrilling, seemingly impractical, sometimes topsy-turvy experiments with the house.
Spotlight: Housing for Formerly Homeless in New Orleans' Historic Neighborhoods
A finalist for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, the Iberville Offsite Rehabs are 46 historic homes rehabilitated for formerly homeless women and children in New Orleans' Seventh Ward and Treme neighborhoods.
Inside Carmel Place: New York City's First Micro Housing Building
In this audio piece, we take you inside New York's only all micro-housing building. Along the way we speak to a tenant, an architect, and a developer, who explain why this remarkable project could never be replicated again.
Why Can't Public Housing Provide Privacy Too?
The familiar signifiers architects use to describe housing are growing tired and unhelpful for designing new models of living.
