
These low-cost housing solutions are made from bamboo
The Housing NOW project addresses home insecurity in a variety of affordable, efficient and sustainable ways. Started...

Flatiron House is adding green to the Manhattan skyline
You're in New York City, standing among tall buildings reaching for the sky. You see steel and concrete, brick...

Can we design sustainable and affordable housing?
At a time when housing is drastically under-built, due to construction costs and an uncertain real estate market,...

Live in a climate positive off-grid housing development
A newer multi-use apartment complex along Schleizer Straße in Berlin set out to address housing shortages and...

A project in Niger hopes to create affordable urban housing
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is a growing metropolis with over one million inhabitants. Similar to other capital...

Sustainable housing complex features amazing bursts of color
Studios 90 is located in the town of Kodla in Karnataka, India, and is one of Sanjay Puri Architects' recently...

They are building sustainable and affordable housing in Uganda
Working with Stage Six and Échale International, Marc Thorpe Design developed a plan for sustainable, ecologically...

Plant Prefab aims to make housing accessible and affordable
Between impact on the land, use of resources, construction waste and effects on air quality, the building and maintenance...

Adaptive reuse to transform LA's Cecil Hotel for a good cause
Six hundred unhoused Angelenos will soon have their own small apartments in downtown Los Angeles. Adaptive reuse...

Eco-friendly housing redefines Tanzanian urban architecture
The Teachers Housing for the International School of Tanganyika is a contemporary residential project by Architectural...

BREEAM-certified residential development in Spain earns the name 'Nature'
Construction in populated areas requires a focus on the function of the development as well as the visual appeal....

Tallhouse: an adaptable, timber model for low-carbon urban housing
In an effort to bring down carbon emissions and streamline the building of cost-effective urban housing, Boston-based...

3D-printed home inspired by a wasp's nest is made of local clay
There's very little doubt that 3D-printing could be huge in the future of design, and architects from around the...

Community-oriented housing redefines a former industrial site in west London
London-based architectural firm Mæ has completed the second phase of Brentford Lock West, a urban regeneration...

A 19th century building is reborn as solar-powered temporary housing for families in need
No matter where you live or what you do for a living, there’s always a chance that fate will take a few bad turns,...