Tag Housing

01-11-2016

Finalists of the 2016-17 World Habitat Awards

Since 1976, the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) has been a catalyst for social change through architecture.

28-10-2016

Herbst Architects: Castle Rock Beach House north of Auckland

Lance and Nicola Herbst designed one of their most important projects on the beach of Whangarei Heads, on the east coast of New Zealand. The shape of the land determines the design of Herbst Architects’ Castle Rock House, in which imprecise confines help represent the landscape.

14-10-2016

Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador

Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador from 17 to 20 October 2016.

28-09-2016

dRMM Architects Trafalgar Place Housing Development London

Architecture can make an important contribution to development of the community itself, and not only of its context. This is the goal of the housing development designed by dRMM Architects in Elephant & Castle, a working-class neighbourhood in London.

08-09-2016

Terra Award the best earthen architecture

An international panel chaired by the Pritzker prize laureate 2012, architect Wang Shu, presented the Terra Awards for the first time during the first edition of the award for earthen architectures, divided up into nine categories, plus a special prize for technical innovation, assigned to Martin Rauch and his team, Lehm Ton Erde.

12-08-2016

A21Studio Saigon House Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

Architect Hiep Hoa Nguyen, founder of A21Studio, was awarded the Archmarathon Award for the Private Housing category thanks to his design of the Saigon House, a private house built in Hồ Chí Minh City (Vietnam) for a family with seven children. This project is a tribute to the old city of Saigon.

05-08-2016

Urko Sánchez Architects SOS Children’s Village

A neighbourhood, or rather a medina, as defined by architects, that is child-friendly: this is, in short, the project that Urko Sánchez Architects undertook for SOS Children's Villages International in Tadjoura, Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa.

26-07-2016

Luigi Rosselli Architects The Great Wall of WA Terra Awards

The jury of the Terra Awards, chaired by 2012 Pritzker Prize winning architect Wang Shu, has awarded the prize in the Collective Housing category to “The Great Wall of WA” by Luigi Rosselli Architects.