Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie Montreal building

Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie Montreal building

Habitat 67 was showered with praise from the day it was created. Specialists and the uninitiated alike were won over by its original, bold design, which showcased construction techniques unheard of at the time.

Clifton Wharf, Gravesend Building, England

Clifton Wharf, Gravesend Building, KPF English Project, Picture, News, Design, Property, Image Clifton Wharf, Gravesend Building Development in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK – design by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) 17 Mar 2009 Clifton Wharf Development KPF wins planning approval for Gravesend riverside renewal project Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (London) have won planning approval for … Read more

Beihai Fake Hills: Chinese residential development

Beihai Fake Hills design by MAD Architects

Throughout China’s ultra-rapid urbanization, attention has been focused on set-piece architecture: opera houses, museums, stadia. However these would-be icons are the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of development in China’s new cities takes the form of residential schemes, often standardized and cheap to guarantee a quick return for the developer. Is it possible to build high-density, economically viable housing which is also architecturally innovative?

Residence Ladoumegue Paris Housing

Residence Ladoumegue Paris housing design by ecdm

This linear site, with its unusual geometry, is a left-over, interstitial space generated by the limit between Paris and Pantin, a space on the edge of an undefined territory.

MiLoft House, Loft Style Living: Affordable Homes

MiLoft House, Architect, Images, Home, Proposal, Design, Project Affordable House : Loft Style Living Concept MiLoft : Contemporary Residential Architecture – design by RMJM 10 Mar 2009 MiLoft Architect launches house that needs no heating Design: RMJM As recession bites, architect launches house that needs no heating Affordable housing has been taken to the next … Read more

Lavington Street Southwark, UNITE Group London

Lavington Street Southwark, London, Architecture, Image, Design, News Lavington Street, London New Southwark Architecture: Building – design by Allies and Morrison, Architects 2 Mar 2009 Lavington Street Design: Allies and Morrison A £23m mixed-used development on the corner of Lavington Street and Great Suffolk Street in Southwark, London, has just started construction. Designed by Allies … Read more

Finsbury Park Housing, Seven Sisters Road Homes

Finsbury Park Housing, Seven Sisters Road Homes

The project involves the complete redevelopment of an urban site on Seven Sisters Road, on the edge of Finsbury Park in north London. Three new urban villas of varying height are arranged around a shared pace and are treated as a tightly knit cluster.

The Grove London, Eltham Building: Residential

The Grove Housing London, Eltham Property, SE9 Homes, Architect, Greenwich Architecture Design Project The Grove, Eltham Property Greenwich Residential Building Development in south-east London – design by DLA Architecture 20 Jan 2009 The Grove Eltham Residential Property DLA Architecture win planning permission for The Grove Design: DLA Architecture Location: Grove Place, Royal Borough of Greenwich, … Read more

Yoyogi Park Apartments: Grosvenor Place Tokyo

Yoyogi Park Apartments - Grosvenor Place Kamizono-cho

Grosvenor, the privately owned international property development, investment and fund management Group, has launched its first residential development in Japan – Grosvenor Place Kamizono-cho, an exclusive residential apartment block adjacent to Yoyogi Park, Tokyo.

Goldhawk Village, Hammersmith Housing

Goldhawk Village is a network of intimately scaled streets widening into a little square. A density of 240 dwellings per hectare is achieved through a radical reworking of the traditional ‘back-to-back’ terraced house