Tag Housing

24-12-2019

Connecting with the history of Vienna, Renngasse 10 by 3XN

The Danish architecture studio 3XN designed the Renngasse 10 apartment building in Vienna’s first district. A contemporary design that adapts to the surrounding historic buildings in a way that complements its neighbours, at the same time retaining its own identity.

15-11-2019

Curial, density housing in Paris, project by Petitdidierprioux

With its 13,000 square metres and more than 300 apartments, the Curial project in the 19th arrondissement of Paris by architects Cédric Petitdidier and Vincent Prioux (Petitdidierprioux) address the issue of urban density and wellbeing for inhabitants.

17-10-2019

Industrial architecture in Rotterdam, the waterworks

Rotterdam is a Mecca for fans of contemporary architecture, with impressive buildings and landmarks. But this Dutch city hides some of its oldest treasures, magnificent examples of industrial architecture that include the De Esch waterworks, turned into a residential zone in the 1970s.

08-10-2019

Mikhail Riches designs energy-efficient social housing in Goldsmith Street, Norwich

Architecture firm Mikhail Riches designed a highly energy-efficient social housing development project in the centre of Norwich in the UK. A complex of terraced houses that offer a valid alternative to high-density apartment buildings. The project won the Riba Stirling Prize 2019.

04-09-2019

The Ecocapsule micro-home opens to the public in Bratislava

After the 2018 launch of the prototype of its mobile micro-home, the Slovakian company, also called Ecocapsule is now ready to get serious. The first micro-home is available for rent to the general public in Bratislava, providing the opportunity to live in a sustainable, autonomous housing pod.

01-04-2019

RAMA Estudio, Edificio Criba in Ambato, Ecuador

In Ambato, a city located in the central Andean valley of Ecuador, the architects from RAMA Estudio have designed a house that is an open, joyous response to the growing trend for gated communities in the township.

20-03-2019

Dans l'Escarpement, connecting with the landscape

The Canadian architecture firm yh2 directed by Marie-Claude Hamelin and Loukas Yiacouvakis completed a house not far from Montreal, which represents a built connection between the site's topography and the views of the surrounding lakes.

14-03-2019

Opat Architects and the house in Red Hill South

What for Rowan Opat of Opat Architects was supposed to be a minor update of an existing holiday house in regional Victoria, Australia turned into a new architecture with minimum environmental impact and a new take on the relationship between what is manmade and what is nature.