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Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America

Deezen

As part of Dezeen's Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Like much of the rest of the country, it is in dire need of more affordable housing.

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Mold, A Disease in Your House, An Architectural Bible Story

Aric Gitomer Architect

Leviticus 14:33-35 states that “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of the disease in my house.”.

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What if?

SW Oregon Architect

The thread common to all is whether we should attribute the weakening of the nation’s most important urban centers to the persistence of work-from-home practices, the concomitant increases in office and storefront vacancies, and an attendant decline in property tax revenues. cities piqued my interest this past week.

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Does Going Viral on Zillow Gone Wild Help or Hurt a Home Sale?

Dwell

Since 2020, Zillow Gone Wild has been the place to discover the zaniest homes on the market, from castle-themed mansions with moats and drawbridges to a repurposed grain silo or a former police station with a still-intact jail cell. Though the homes’ eccentric features tend to run the gamut, there are some recurring through lines.

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Demolition of council estates "has peaked"

Deezen

For our Social Housing Revival series, we look at how the fate of UK social-housing estates has become an urgent topic as councils grapple with the housing crisis and challenges of preservation. Anti-demolition campaigns failed to save Robin Hood Gardens (also top).

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"I really hate the word 'social' housing" says Annalie Riches

Deezen

Architects are often wrongly blamed for past failures in social housing , Mikhail Riches co-founder Annalie Riches says in this Social Housing Revival interview. Riches set out in her career to design great social housing, in a bid to challenge what she saw as a prevailing notion that architects "can't do housing".

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Dezeen's top 10 design and architecture videos of 2023

Deezen

Continuing our review of 2023 , we round up the top 10 Dezeen videos of the year, which include exclusive interviews with Ai Weiwei and Sou Fujimoto, as well as collaborations with the Barbican Centre and the Serpentine Galleries.  Ghotmeh told Dezeen how she aimed to create a space where people could connect with one another.