French housing project “I Park” has a double-skinned green facade
Located in Montpellier, a historic city near the south of France on the Mediterranean Sea, “I Park” is a housing project with a plant-covered facade that catches the eye even from afar. Developed across the street from the city’s
The left “fetishises council housing with the same conviction as the right fetishises traditional styles”
We should be applauding social housing projects, but resist the rhetoric that sees council housing as the only solution to the housing crisis, says Owen Hopkins . Donald Trump may have been vanquished, but Trumpism is still alive and
Housing meets industrial heritage at Make Architects’ Asta House in London
The reimagining of an office building in central London by Make Architects, Asta House, combines contemporary housing and 1950s industrial heritage Photography: Jack Hobhouse Working with Derwent London, Make Architects has completed the full reimagining of an existing central
ΜΕΣΟΤΟΙΧΙΕΣ is a social housing concept composed of 23 parallel party walls
as part of an international competition, leonidas papalampropoulos and georgia syriopoulou have designed a social housing concept for larnaca, cyprus . the project, which took 2nd prize, is called ‘ΜΕΣΟΤΟΙΧΙΕΣ’ or ‘party walls’, and it seeks to combine two
Green apartment with irregular layout (68 sqm)
Absolutely all walls of this Swedish apartment are green – an unusual and bold, but very effective design solution. The irregular layout makes this housing even more special, as the rooms are not square, but of complex, uneven shapes.
julien de smedt joins forces with othalo to build housing from recycled plastic
julien de smedt , founder of JDS architects, has joined forces with a othalo , norweigan start-up that has developed a patented technology that makes it possible to produce building elements from 100% recycled plastic . coinciding with world
Mayor of London Launches Housing Design App to Transform Construction
In order to assist the city of London and encourage constructions after Covid-19, the Mayor of London , with tech-led design practice Bryden Wood and leading residential consultancy Cast , have launched a new version of the housing design
New London Awards shortlist:former army barracks and brick apartment blocks among Best Housing Scheme 2020 contenders
Small, simple, elegant and contemporary brick apartment blocks, that suit their surroundings and have easy access to green space and amenities, are being held up as the best examples of residential design and construction in the New London Awards
Vaulted ceilings, earthly tones and Scandinavian touches: renovated old apartment in Barcelona
Looking at the ceilings of this apartment , you can easily understand that the housing is located in Barcelona – the famous Catalan vaults are an important architectural feature of this region of Spain and are known throughout the
Boulevard Ney Social Housing / ITAR Architectures
Text description provided by the architects. Participating in the urban renewal of the boulevard Ney and the Porte de Clignancourt, this new building is split into two volumes linked at the bottom by a shared platform occupied by the
Extending homes without planning permission:
Could there be a simple solution to London ’s housing crisis? One that has been right under our noses — or, to be more accurate, just above our heads — all along? From this month, changes to the planning
‘shifting nests’ by bla design group are sutainable, prefab micro-homes for unaffordable cities
bla design group proposes ‘shifting nests’, a sustainable housing solution for low-cost, flexible living in unaffordable cities. winner of the bee breeders microhome competition 2019, the project comprises a cluster of prefab micro-homes, each with a floor area of
Homes selling at fastest rate in decade:stamp duty holiday adrenaline injection for UK property market
Daniel Lynch The stamp duty holiday has injected a hit of adrenaline into the UK housing market, with speedy sales hitting a record high. According to new research from property portal Rightmove , the number of homes sold within
Affordable housing in London:Greenwich signs up for hundreds of prefab homes to address chronic housing shortage
Britain's biggest “factory-built” council homes programme since the prefab construction boom of the Forties has been launched in east London. Greenwich council has signed a £300 million contract for the delivery of up to 750 new modular homes to
How the summer property market is bouncing back:mini-boom sees house sales in August rise by 44 per cent on same time last year
The housing market has gone bonkers in London . Sealed bids, quick-fire sales and record prices are back. After a prolonged period of Brexit stagnation and the shock of lockdown, the London housing scene, usually quiet in midsummer, is
New homes in south-west London:plans resubmitted for riverside brewery in Mortlake with twice as much affordable housing
A £1.5 billion masterplan to turn one of London’s oldest brewery sites into a Thameside “village” with 1,250 homes has been lodged with Sadiq Khan. It is the latest attempt to win planning permission to develop the former Stag