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Maximizing Dilapidated Infrastructure: The Potential of Repurposing Abandoned Buildings into Social Housing

ArchDaily

Abandoned Public Housing. license As the demand for affordable housing grows and the availability of low-cost properties diminishes, stakeholders in housing must become more innovative in their approach to social housing development. One opportunity lies in restoring and repurposing abandoned buildings.

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Safa House Restoration / Torab Home

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In the historic district of Yazd City, the Safa House, situated in the Amir Chakhmaq neighborhood, was assigned to the Torab Home Company as a. Completed in 2020 in Yazd, Iran. Images by Mina Abouei.

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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

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US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. This renovation reactivates Lever House for the 21st century," said SOM partner Chris Cooper.

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camarim arquitetos restores lisbon house with decorative facade of patterned tiles

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camarim arquitetos has unveiled its latest project, house no. The post camarim arquitetos restores lisbon house with decorative facade of patterned tiles appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. 11, the renovation of a historic building in lisbon's santa isabel neighborhood.

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Loader Monteith completes "invisible" restoration of Peter Womersley's High Sunderland house

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Architecture studio Loader Monteith has renovated a modernist house in the Scottish Borders that was damaged in a fire, using a light touch to reinstate its original design by architect Peter Womersley. Loader Monteith has renovated a modernist house in the Scottish Borders. metre grid.

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Cut and Morph House / Ahron Best Architects

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The client, a young couple, purchased the dilapidated property with the intention of restoring the existing building and converting it into a modern. Completed in 2021 in Croydon, Australia. Images by Tom Ferguson.

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Colleen Healey adorns restored Maryland carriage house with colourful facades

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Colleen Healey Architecture has restored and expanded an early 20th-century carriage house on an unusual lot in Maryland by placing black stucco and colourful panels on the facade. The Red Maple House is located in Bethesda, Maryland, which lies just outside of Washington DC. The design conforms to the pipestem lot.