ArchDaily

JANUARY 22, 2024

Cortesía de Fundación Miguel Fisac Where does the process of mythification of a work in architecture reside? Firstly, the appearance of an intrinsic value within the architecture, such as highlighting the taste for the projected building. What are the conditions inherently linked to the resource of memory?

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The new Metropolitan Village project is being designed by OMA Managing Partner David Gianotten and Taiwan Project Director Chiaju Lin and calls for a 23-story tower comprised of interconnected volumes arranged around a central core. OMA has revealed plans for its first post-pandemic residential design in Taipei.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jerome Markson, the 2022 RAIC Gold Medalist and modern social housing pioneer whose influence was felt widely across Canada, died in Toronto on Saturday, November 18, The Globe and Mail reported. “His work epitomizes a deep caring towards those who will use and enjoy his projects as well as the communities in which they exist.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Dezeen speaks to residents of new council housing in London about what their homes mean to them as part of our Social Housing Revival series. It's such a weird feeling" Bennett and her children previously spent 12 years in a one-bedroom flat, bidding unsuccessfully for social housing where they would have more space.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Continuing our Social Housing Revival series , we revisit the regeneration of the Grade II listed Bourne Estate in north London , completed in 2018 by local studio Matthew Lloyd Architects. According to Lloyd, the creation of the arches was influenced by residents.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

The first case study in our Social Housing Revival series looks at a housing block in Vienna organised around a central "common heart" that harks back to the city's golden age of municipal construction.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In response to a growing need for non-confirmative education systems that allow children to make their own decisions in the 21st century, DS2 design studio in Bengaluru initiated the project. For the duration of their course, students live in the Madrassa and learn life skills, social studies, as well as Islam and its applications.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Architectural designer George Fisher has created an outdoor social space for Project Malachi, a homeless hostel in London, using the modular U-Build system developed by Studio Bark. The programmatic brief emerged collectively from the voices of the residents themselves," said Fisher. "The

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ArchDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Some of the fastest growing economies are keen to shout from their garden rooftops about their growing environmentalism, infrastructure, attractive investment opportunities, and rising architectural scene, but also to keep alive the history and culture of their past, and build socially active environments. Read more »

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Archinect

MAY 31, 2022

Renée Gailhoustet has been named the winner of this year’s Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Prize in recognition of her work surrounding urban planning and social housing in her native country of France. Within the long and storied history of social housing i. Ivry-sur-Seine.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

As one walks along the bamboo platform, they are able to view the projections of the current state of Tripa de Gallina in the center. The Pavilion aims to present the initiative that set out to gather and investigate the guts of the estuary and to work with the residents to find adequate and sustainable architectural solutions.

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Archinect

JANUARY 10, 2023

Noted French modernist and social housing pioneer Renée Gailhoustet passed away on January 4th at her home outside of Paris, the nation’s largest newspaper, Le Monde, reported earlier on Tuesday. After attending the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris , Gailhoustet began her own practice in the French capital in 1964.

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Archinect

JUNE 1, 2023

The Brno office of CHYBIK + KRISTOF (CHK) just completed a new scientific greenhouse project in its historic Czech Republic home city. Augustin Abbey, to which the then 22-year-old first came to reside in 1844. Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Photography by Laurian Ghinițoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF.

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Archinect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ekho Studio has completed its first student accommodation project, as the interiors consultancy enters the PBSA (Purpose-built Student Accommodation) market for the first time. The project is a new-build scheme called Enso , located in the heart of Colchester and just minutes from the University of Essex campus.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

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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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Tencent 5 will have 11 apartment buildings arranged around courtyards Located on a narrow peninsula, the bayside residences will be the centrepiece of a wider smart city campus developed by Tencent and masterplanned by US architecture studio NBBJ. The images are by Atchain.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

From a standing start, Taiwan has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious social-housing programmes. Dezeen finds out more as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Every time I go back to Taiwan, there's always a new housing project completing," she continued. The Netherlands people totally changed the argument.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Providing homes for people with disabilities and formerly houseless LGBTQ+ youth, our next Social Housing Revival case study set out to prove that low-cost housing in the US can look as good as upscale apartments. One was a design that fits into context, one was respecting environmental issues, and one was social."

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Archinect

JANUARY 10, 2022

Guarumo is a contemporary residence located on the Costa Rican Pacific coast, where the characteristic tropical landscape is harmoniously combined with modern, simple and discreet architecture, all with a high degree of aesthetics / design.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Opening on October 21st, A BETTER WAY HOME is an extension of the museum’s Equity in the Built Environment series and showcases six winning projects from the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge , which awarded $20 million over a three-year span to exemplary solutions to the problem in the areas of housing construction, housing finance, (..)

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Archinect

JUNE 18, 2022

The Local Activity Center is a facility whose purpose is to create and support social and cultural life in the area of Wrocław's Maślice. Residents needed a place that would be conducive to engaging in various local activities and building a sense of belonging to a given place.

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Archinect

JANUARY 31, 2023

Founded in 2004 by David Montalba, the Santa Monica / Lausanne firm operates across architecture and urban design with an emphasis on “creating environments that are both socially responsive and aesthetically progressive.” LR2 Residence, Pasadena, CA Located on a hillside perch in Pasadena.

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Deezen

APRIL 2, 2024

A mobile pavilion made of bamboo and a board game dedicated to education around the urban planning process were among the projects highlighted from a design and architecture symposium held in Bogotá. Read on for six projects presented at the symposium. Photo courtesy Social Design Collaborative Kaun hai Master? Kya hai Plan?,

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Archinect

JUNE 8, 2023

As a sustainable community and satellite town adapted to 21st-century living, where residents could live close to nature but maintain a connection to work through high-speed broadband, she envisioned Batawa as a model community for social and environmental sustainability.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Seventy-two people were killed in a fire at Grenfell Tower after a botched refurbishment project.

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Bustler

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A total of 29 projects were selected for the cohort, which this year comes with an added call for collaboration with the private sector. C40 added that the 27 other winning projects remaining are "highly ambitious regarding environmental and social benefits and go beyond business as usual." Read the full post on Bustler

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

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. In 2021, it established the Housing Production Fund (HPF) to fund mixed-income social housing.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Designed for an ageing couple with increasing mobility difficulties, Beyond-the-family Kin by Ignacio G Galán and Alvaro M Fidalgo and Arantza Ozaeta of OF Architects seeks to encourage social connections in order to create new networks of interdependence for the owners. Project credits: Architects: Ignacio G.

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2023

Project Location: Al Khiran, Kuwait Year: 2021 Built-up Area: 2390 sqm Status: Complete -- Project Description: Inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula have a long-standing tradition of leaving the cities on holidays often traveling to the seaside or to the desert to set up temporary infrastructures and spend quality time with their families.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The proposal for a residence in a condominium in the city of São José dos Campos, for a young couple with small children, arose from the request for a home for life. The metallic structure also contributes to the projects’ integration of the interiors with the exterio.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

million square feet (213,676 square metres) of vacant office buildings into residences and retail in the centre of Chicago, an area known as The Loop. The city defines affordable housing as residences affordable to "residents earning an average 60 per cent of the area median income".

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Deezen

AUGUST 14, 2023

Covered walkways wrap the buildings Social-welfare organisation Johanniter Unfallhilfe commissioned German studios Dorschner Kahl Architects and Heine Mildner Architects to design a housing project with living arrangements that would suit people of all ages.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

Several council homes on the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich could be sold at a discount just five years after they were built, Dezeen can reveal as part of our Social Housing Revival series. It comprises 105 homes arranged into high-density terraced streets close to Norwich city centre. she told Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. Modules make up the social housing in San Francisco. The six-storey project stacks 87 two-unit boxes. Only the necessities are included in the compact units.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the evolution of Hines’ T3 concept into the residential space, Austin, Texas, residents can now work and live within the bounds of timber’s organic warmth and beauty. We design ecosystems that promote resident needs and accommodate their growth. So, what sets one apart from the other?

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Above: one of his early projects was his own house. Hotakubo Housing was his first social housing project. Photo by Kouichi Satake Through his five-decade career, Yamamoto has built numerous private homes, housing projects, schools, university campuses, civic buildings, museums and even a fire station. Photo by Tom Welsh.

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