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Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Challenge

Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Challenge

BIG’s West 57th “Pyramid” Wins Final Approval

Lowering the Cost of Housing Competition

At a time when government resources dedicated to housing production and preservation are rapidly shrinking and the cost to develop affordable housing is increasing, there is significant space and demand for innovation when it comes to lowering building and operating costs. Therefore, the ‘Lowering the Cost of Housing‘ competition is seeking to provide a new [...]

San Francisco Approves Nation’s Tiniest Apartments

San Francisco has recently approved legislation that will change the city building code to allow for “micro-unit apartments” that includes only 220 square feet of living space. These spaces aim at providing affordable options for singles to live in densely populated urban areas without having to live in the outskirts of the city. Although more [...]

Officierenwijk Residential Zone Winning Proposal / META Architectuurbureau

Located in a forested area of Brasschaat, Belgium, the competition winning proposal for the Officierenwijk Residential Zone consists of 23 single-family houses, of which 17 can be classified as social housing and 6 as affordable housing. Designed by META Architectuurbureau, the different dwellings form, both on a functional as well as aesthetic level, a coherent [...]

Venice Biennale 2012: Feeling at Home

This exhibition, curated by London-based Sergison Bates Architects, explores the common spaces between the public city and the private room. It considers six recent social housing projects in six cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Geneva, Paris, Trondheim and Winterthur. The work, by six different practices, reveals an interconnected culture of thought and practice, a common ground of [...]

British government to reduce affordable housing quotas as part of stimulus package

Dezeen Wire: the British coalition government’s new stimulus package to encourage house building includes complex plans to lower the proportion of affordable housing that private developers must include in large projects, reports CNBC via the Financial Times.

Sugar Hill Breaks Ground / Adjaye Associates

© David Adjaye Two years ago, we featured David Adjaye’s affordable housing project for Harlem which was designed as a way to integrate urban and cultural offerings alongside 120+ units of affordable housing.  Construction began on the building yesterday, and was celebrated by a ceremony attended by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.  “Sugar Hill represents [...]

Finalists of the 100 Mile House Competition

3rd Prize: Won Jin Park (New York, USA) – Courtesy of the Architectural Foundation of British Columbia The Architectural Foundation of British Columbia (BC) has announced the five finalists of the 100 Mile House Competition. Similar to the well-known 100 Mile Diet, the 100 Mile House challenges participants to design a 1200-square-foot home using only [...]