Tag Housing

19-01-2022

Farewell to architect Ricardo Bofill

Architect Ricardo Bofill died in Barcelona on January 14, 2022 at the age of 82. He was one of Spain’s best-known architects, creator of such important projects as Parco Manzanares in Madrid or the National Theatre of Catalonia, works with a profound impact on the landscape such as the W Hotel in Barcelona, iconic constructions such as the Muralla Roja or La Fábrica, his own home and the headquarters of his studio, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

12-01-2022

OITOO: Ground floor house, reuse of a ground floor in Porto

Ground floor house is one of the results of the study conducted by OITOO in collaboration with the students of SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, of projects for reuse of the ground floor of buildings in the suburbs of Porto.

23-12-2021

Stefano Boeri Architects designs Trudo Vertical Forest, first Social Housing Vertical Forest in Eindhoven

Trudo Vertical Forest is the first social housing Vertical Forest in the world, designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti and built in the Netherlands, in Eindhoven. Through a 3-episode documentary video, the architecture studio has narrated the design and construction of this 19-storey residential tower housing 135 trees and 10,000 smaller shrubs and plants, all distributed on the four façades.

17-12-2021

World Habitat Awards 2021, the winning projects

The World Habitat Awards, originally founded in 1985 and organised by World Habitat in collaboration with UN-Habitat, are the most prestigious award in the housing sector. The 2021 Gold Award winners are the Introducing Community Land Trusts in Continental Europe project (Belgium) and the Housing Monitor project (Lebanon).

10-12-2021

Suppose Design Office: House in Odaka neighbourhood, Nagoya

This house by Suppose Design Office was built on a hill, one of just a few pockets of green space remaining in Odaka, a neighbourhood in the south of the city of Nagoya, Japan. As an experimental spin on the concept of the contemporary Japanese home, the architecture seeks a sense of permanence in its lightweight composition.

01-12-2021

MVRDV’s Ilot Queyries, living on a human scale in Bordeaux

Dutch architectural studio MVRDV completed Ilot Queyries, a residential building in Bordeaux, France, a few weeks ago. The courtyard construction featuring plenty of green space is part of a new neighbourhood consisting of four buildings designed by MVRDV with Joubert Architecture.

10-11-2021

DAP designs Social Housing for regenerating what used to be a suburb of the city

The Bragarina housing development designed by DAP studio in La Spezia is a permeable place triggering a multitude of relationships with its urban surroundings, becoming an important matrix for renewal of an entire district in what used to be an outlying suburb of the city.

02-11-2021

RE-THINKING CITY : HOUSING

“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. In its place, taxidermy can be a useful and decent craft. However, it goes too far when the specimens put on display are exhibitions of dead, stuffed cities.” - Jane Jacobs