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Plugin House built in Boston to demonstrate potential for use in US backyards
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office is using a pop-up pavilion to show how a prefabricated home designed for China's hutongs could be used by cities in the US to help tackle the housing crisis....
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Affordable brick housing built for Argentinian teachers
Argentinian architecture studios Nomada and Eypaa have created a row of five low-cost apartments blocks for school teachers in Córdoba, Argentina. Each of the three-storey blocks contains three...
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MVRDV's "mountainous" Future Towers provides low-cost accommodation in India
Dutch firm MVRDV has completed an enormous apartment building in the Indian city of Pune, featuring a series of connected blocks with sloping roofs, which branch out to enclose multipurpose courtyards....
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Find innovative examples of low-cost housing on our Pinterest board
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to low-cost housing solutions, with new additions including MDRDV's mountainous structure in India and a cuboidal concrete family home in Portugal. Follow...
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Opposite Office redesigns Buckingham Palace as co-living space for 50,000...
Opposite Office has proposed redesigning and extending London's Buckingham Palace to create the Affordable Palace where 50,000 people would co-habit with the queen. The Munich-based architecture...
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Gus Wüstemann creates affordable apartment block almost entirely from concrete
Concrete-lined living spaces extend out onto angular balconies at this low-cost housing block in Zurich, designed by locally based studio Gus Wüstemann. The monolithic block is surrounded by 1950s...
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Charles Cunniffe Architects completes affordable housing complex in Colorado...
Tiny homes, an apartment building and a boarding house make up the Virginia Placer development, which Charles Cunniffe Architects has designed for a Rocky Mountain community in Colorado with a dearth...
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Yves Béhar designs "world's first 3D-printed community" for Latin America
Designer Yves Béhar has revealed plans to build 3D-printed houses for an impoverished farming community in Latin America. Béhar, founder of design studio Fuseproject, developed the project with New...
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OJT completes sculptural affordable housing in New Orleans
American firm Office of Jonathan Tate has completed a cluster of sculptural white homes on an urban New Orleans site that are meant to attract buyers on a limited budget. The project, called Saint...
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TRS Studio envisions shipping containers as affordable housing in Peru
Two shipping containers are joined together and topped by an angular polycarbonate extension in this conceptual design for low-cost housing by Peruvian firm TRS Studio. TRS Studio designed the...
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Lianjie Wu designs affordable homes that are deliberately left unfinished
The final instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series features a proposal by Bartlett graduate Lianjie Wu for affordable homes that are left unfinished, for residents to complete themselves....
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IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK
Affordable developer BoKlok, which is co-owned by IKEA and Skanska, has signed a deal with Worthing council in West Sussex to build low-cost housing in the south of England. Worthing council has...
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Kanye West is building Star Wars-themed housing for the homeless
Kanye West's prefabricated affordable Yeezy Home units take inspiration from the Star Wars films and might be used as underground homeless housing. The celebrity musician revealed the prototypes for...
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SO-IL designs affordable housing for urban centre in growing Mexican city
New York firm SO-IL has envisioned a six-storey, concrete apartment building for León, Mexico, which is meant to offer an alternative solution for the country's low-cost housing shortage. The project,...
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Shipping-container micro homes with green roofs planned for UK
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained planning permission for a development of micro homes made from shipping containers with green roofs in Aylesbury, England. Gatehouse Road is a low-cost...
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LOHA tops MLK1101 housing for Los Angeles' homeless with sloped green roof
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has built social housing in Los Angeles featuring a green roof, herb garden, a community centre and retail spaces to foster wellness and community for those in need. Called...
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Experimental Mexican community contains social housing by Tatiana Bilbao and...
Tatiana Bilbao, Frida Escobedo and Fernanda Canales are among 32 architects and studios that have created low-cost housing designs as part of an innovative community development in Hidalgo, Mexico. The...
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Zeller & Moye designs modular social housing concept Casa Hilo for rural Mexico
This proposal for low-cost housing by Mexican studio Zeller & Moye features a simple module, made from concrete and adobe brick, that can be easily expanded according to residents' needs. The...
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Competition: win a book about affordable housing ideas from Bee Breeders
In our latest competition, we've teamed up with architectural think-tank Bee Breeders to offer five readers the chance to win a copy of its publication addressing issues of affordable housing. Titled...
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John Ronan creates affordable housing in Chicago with colourful balconies and...
A spectrum of vivid hues were incorporated throughout a mixed-use building in Chicago by John Ronan Architects that contains a public library at ground level and low-cost senior housing up above. The...
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Nest "toolkit" can be used to build homeless shelters and supportive housing
California firms Brooks + Scarpa and Plant Prefab have unveiled a low-cost housing concept for fallow urban sites, which comprise prefabricated, modular units that can be arranged in various...
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LOHA designs affordable housing complex for difficult site in Los Angeles
American firm LOHA has unveiled plans for an affordable housing complex in Los Angeles, comprising stacks of shipping containers arranged on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange. The...
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Architecture grad makes affordable prefab homes from Hawaii's invasive trees
University of Hawaii architect graduate Joey Valenti has designed prefabricated and low-cost housing units made entirely from invasive albizia trees on the island of Oahu. The prefab Accessory Dwelling...
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Kanye West reveals updated prototype of YZY shelters
American musician, producer and designer Kanye West has revealed a photo showing that the latest prototype for his low-cost housing for the homeless is under construction. West posted the photo to...
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Commenters think Kanye West's low-cost housing "doesn't look affordable"
In this week's comments update, readers are critiquing Kanye West's latest prototype for his low-cost housing for the homeless and sharing their views on other top stories. Musician and designer Kanye...
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Julien de Smedt designs range of recycled-plastic houses
Architect Julien de Smedt is working with Norwegian startup Othalo to create a range of modular houses that will be constructed largely from recycled plastic. Created by Othalo, in partnership with UN...
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Generate creates digital library of timber building systems to "revolutionise...
Architecture studio Generate has developed the Tallhouse library of timber-based building systems to help architects build affordable housing and reduce construction-related carbon emissions by up to...
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Building material offcuts from affordable housing project used to create...
Mexican industrial design studio Jorge Diego Etienne has created a collection of "unpretentious" furniture for Techo – a non-profit that builds prefabricated housing for people living in slums across...
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SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico
New York firm SO-IL has completed this low rise yet high-density affordable housing development in León, Mexico, with apartments arranged around courtyards. The project, called Las Americas, is a...
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Max-A builds low-cost modular cabin overlooking Lake Ranco in Chile
Chilean studio Max-A combined local materials with modular construction to keep costs down on the Casa Tobita holiday home. Located on the east side of Lake Ranco, the fourth biggest lake in Chile, the...
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Colombian construction company creates affordable homes using coffee waste
This one-minute video shows how a local construction company is using waste coffee husks to build affordable and eco-friendly housing for communities in Colombia. Woodpecker WPC creates sustainable,...
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Blue co-housing complex by Productora fits eight units onto two Denver lots
Architecture firm Productora has completed a small housing complex in Denver, Colorado, that provides eight units with shared amenities on a lot that would typically accommodate only two single-family...
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Tres Birds uses timber and metal to create ADU alongside Boulder home
Smart systems and salvaged materials feature in an accessory dwelling unit by architecture firm Tres Birds that city officials have designated as low-cost housing. The project is located in Boulder,...
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Marc Thorpe designs Kampala houses made from local soil bricks
Architect Marc Thorpe has unveiled renderings of a set of houses in Uganda that will be constructed almost entirely from bio-bricks made from local soil and feature solar-panelled roofs. Scheduled for...
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Perkins & Will uses wind direction to shape LA low-income housing complex
Architecture firm Perkins & Will has released designs for a three-building, low-income housing complex in Los Angeles that includes permanent supportive housing. Sited in the San Fernando Valley...
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D'Arcy Jones creates sculptural residential complex for changing Victoria...
Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has completed a family-focused, residential development in British Columbia that consists of staggered rowhouses clad in textured stucco. Pearl Block is located...
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"The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing" says...
Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this...
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"Are we ready to see public housing's beauty and suburbia's impoverishment?"
Decades of harmful policymaking mean America exclusively associates public housing with squalor, but an influx of subsidized homes would make the suburbs infinitely better, writes Dana Cuff. At the...
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Hemp-clad Tigín Tiny Homes offer a way to "escape the rent trap" says social...
Irish social enterprise Common Knowledge has teamed up with hemp producer Margent Farm to design a low-carbon micro home that it claims can support people affected by the housing crisis. Designed...
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"Highly-intelligent" 333 Kingsland Road named UK's best affordable housing
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road in London, which was designed by local architecture studio Henley Halebrown, has won RIBA's Neave Brown Award for Housing. The hybrid project...
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"It's hard not to wonder what Neave Brown would think of the award in his name"
For all their architectural merits, the shortlisted projects for this year's Neave Brown award cannot escape the problems that continue to plague the British housing sector writes Kaye Stout, chair of...
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Scalloped facade fronts Parisian social housing block by Jean-Christophe Quinton
French architect Jean-Christophe Quinton has decorated a Parisian social housing project built on the site of a demolished police station with a curvy limestone facade. The housing units are located at...
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Scalloped facade fronts supportive housing facility in Los Angeles by Brooks...
Brooks + Scarpa has completed an apartment building with a scalloped, textured facade in Los Angeles that offers affordable low-cost housing to young adults that are transitioning out of group homes....
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Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen develops modular building system to address housing...
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House have designed a modular prototype that can be configured to construct low-cost housing. The Industrialized Building System Prototype was designed...
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Energy-saving 10K House in Barcelona is a "labyrinth that multiplies...
Spanish studio Takk took cues from snugly stacked Russian dolls for the interior renovation of this Barcelona apartment, which features rooms nestled inside each other to maximise insulation. Called...
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West of West proposes vertical co-living neighborhood for San Francisco
US architecture studio West of West has won an AIA competition to reimagine the future of San Francisco housing in response to the city's housing crisis. American Institute of Architects (AIA) San...
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GBBN creates set of housing blocks that reinterpret historic fabric of...
US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. Located in the Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood, Wilkommen includes...
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Studio Libeskind creates social housing block for first New York project
A sculptural facade defines the Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences, a housing block with affordable senior apartments in Freeport, New York, designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind....
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Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024
After extreme floods put a third of Pakistan under water in 2022, architect Yasmeen Lari vowed to build one million flood-resilient homes. For our Designing for Disaster series, her foundation reveals...
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Cutwork designs modular housing to be used for long-term living or emergency...
Architecture studio Cutwork has developed a concept for low-cost, modular housing that could be reconfigured to facilitate twice as many people during a crisis. The experimental architecture and design...
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