Patch22 Apartments in Amsterdam

Patch22

Design: FRANTZEN et al

Patch22 is not only clad with wood, but it has a 30 metres high wooden load bearing structure in which the timber columns, timber beams and wooden walls that remain visible in the interiors of the apartments.

Peace Creek Villas in Chengdu

Peace Creek Villas

Design: JFAK Architects

In a country known for massive housing blocks and residential environments that, as in many other cultures, rely on traditional architectural styles to attract the newly prosperous, JFAK has created something unique.

Amirá Housing Development Queretaro

Amira Housing

Design: ARCHETONIC. AMIRÁ occupies a prime location in the City of Queretaro, and overlooks it from the heights of the Diamante neighborhood. The distant surroundings are a visual complement to those nearby.

B2 Atlantic Yards Brooklyn: 38 Sixth Avenue

38 Sixth Avenue Pacific Park Building

Design: SHoP Architects. All-affordable building at 38 Sixth Avenue, adjacent to the Barclays Center, 303 residences. Reputedly the tallest modular building in the world.

6 Pavilions – University College Oxford

6 Pavilions University College Oxford

Design: Belsize Architects. This new student accommodation project forms part of a larger programme of work to develop a masterplan for University College’s residential annex in north Oxford

Krøyers Plads Housing, Copenhagen homes

Krøyers Plads Housing Copenhagen

Krøyers Plads building design by Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter and COBE, architects: a five-story housing project with a significant location in the centre of the Copenhagen harbour area – award-winning and Nordic Eco-labelled project

Duncan House, Stratford Student Flats

Duncan House Stratford Student Accommodation

Design: Hodder and Partners, architects. The University of London, in partnership with University Partnership Programmes close a £105m deal to house over 500 students in a new 33-storey building in Stratford.

One More Kaohsiung Residential Tower

One More Kaohsiung Residential Tower

Design: spatial practice, architects. A simple building design: the horizontal band defines the uninterrupted view of the park, mountain, and sea; while also performing as a sustainable shading element to reduce heat gain.

Housing Crisis: UK Housebuilding Issues

Container Temporary Housing

The UK’s dramatic population growth projection – 11 million more people by 2035, equivalent to 22 more Manchesters, already Europe’s most overcrowded country, will have damaging consequences for everyone.

Pembury Circus in Hackney, East London

Pembury Circus in Hackney

Design: Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects. The Pembury Circus project, is a development for Peabody and Bellway Homes providing 268 high quality new homes as well as shops, offices, a gym, a nursery and a large community center.

Colline aux Oliviers in Tunis: Tunisia Social Housing

Colline aux Oliviers

Design: Philippe Barriere Collective (PB+Co). This semi-rural/semi-urban new alternative Social Housing development is located in the governorate of Manouba on a hill near the Medjerda river on the Southwest edge of Jedeida city limits.

Sundbyoster Hall II in Copenhagen Sports Centre

Sundbyoster Hall ll

Design: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. This building project is an architectural 3-in-1-solution integrating grocery store, sports hall and housing units in one building located in the district of Amager in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Norra Tornen in Stockholm Housing

Norra Tornen in Stockholm

Design: OMA. How does one make a project from ingredients one is usually keen to avoid? What repertoire should be invoked when (modern) architecture’s most instant reflexes: asymmetry, prismatic volumes and smooth exteriors instantly prove impossible?

Sterling Townhouses in Highett

Sterling Townhouses in Highett

Design: Genton Architecture. Located on three street frontages, the compact 26 townhouse design and contemporary façade treatment with distinctive timber elements and soft cream bricks, blend harmoniously with the older post World War II houses in the area.