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Housing
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Profiles
Four Architecture Students Respond to the Housing Crisis
With modular, quick-to assemble housing designs attuned to local needs and context, these members of the 2023 Metropolis Future100 show advanced methodologies and humanitarianism go hand in hand.
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Profiles
Clytie Hoi Ting Mak Explores the Human Psyche through Design
Mak, a member of the 2023 Metropolis Future 100 brings together multiple design disciplines to explore the relationships between the forms of the built environment and the human psyche.
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Profiles
Wittman Estes Creates Places where Architecture and Landscape Intertwine
The Seattle-based firm’s nature-based approach is rooted in a belief that the best designs give more to their surroundings more than they take.
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Projects
Is Coliving Finally Having Its Moment?
Long touted as a housing solution for young people in urban centers, interest in coliving appears to be surging with new projects in the U.S. and Europe that boast affordability and built-in community.
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Projects
El Borinquen Residence Welcomes Supportive Housing in Vivid Color
Alexander Gorlin Architects’ newest supportive housing project in the Bronx draws on Latin Modernism to enmesh itself in its context.
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Profiles
Liv-Connected’s Design-forward Units Are Helping Redefine Modular Housing
Born out of a mission to provide comfortable shelter to disaster victims, the brand is now targeting the “missing middle” of American housing.
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Viewpoints
Los Angeles Architects and Leaders Take on Their City’s Homeless Crisis
Christopher Hawthorne, L.A.’s chief design officer, discusses how a culture of design innovation is helping tackle a growing calamity and provide dignity, shelter, and gracious interior spaces to thousands.
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Projects
A San Fernando Valley Housing Project Sets a New Standard
Los Angeles firm Brooks + Scarpa creates a “guardian of the block” on a corner lot in the San Fernando Valley.
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Projects
In Brooklyn, a Supportive Housing Development gets the Big Firm Treatment
Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) provided the design for Edwin’s Place, a 125-unit affordable and supportive development, but getting the project built took a village.
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Profiles
Future100: These Students Channel Personal Narrative into Supportive Housing
Seven undergraduate and graduate architecture students reflect on their personal experiences and lineages to design ethical, supportive, and sustainable housing projects.
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Projects
John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects’ New Tool Merges Data with Humanity
The Open Source Homelessness Initiative, a winner of Metropolis' inaugural Responsible Disruptors competition, lets visitors peruse case studies, reports, and news about building for the unsheltered.
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Projects
In Amsterdam, a Socially Conscious Housing Development Takes Formal Inspiration from the Past
Marcel Lok and Korth Tielens Architects designed an 80-unit residential structure in the style of the Amsterdamse School with the hope of creating a new heart for an old neighborhood.
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Projects
4 Standout National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Responding to the theme "How will we live together?" national pavilions examine the local and global factors that produce unique housing patterns.
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Projects
Orange Architects Unveils Stacked and Staggered Private Housing in Rotterdam
The 18 single-family houses and 17 apartments that make up Rietzoom are part of a much-needed plan to create more private housing in the Dutch city.
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Viewpoints
Los Angeles’s Standard Plan Program for ADUs Takes Aim at the Housing Crisis
In response to the growing popularity of ADUs as a way to boost affordability, the city’s plan includes 20 pre-approved designs contributed by 14 firms.
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Projects
Colorful Windows and Broad Balconies Define Casa Celestina
The Cabo Verdean apartment building designed by Ramos Castellano Architects is an airy home base for visitors to the islands.
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Projects
OBY House Addresses Affordability in the Bay Area
Spurred by interest in ADUs, the carbon-neutral home is a collaborative effort to build sustainable housing in one of the nation's most unaffordable regions.
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Projects
Wheeler Kearns Architects Designs a Home for This Chicago Nonprofit
The Night Ministry, a Chicago housing and outreach nonprofit, needed space that could accommodate guests and clients, in addition to its 50 staff and volunteers.
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Projects
A Residential Village Rises in the Center of Oslo
The eclectic but aesthetically coherent family of blocks was designed by local architect Reiulf Ramstad, who sought to "enhance a heterogeneous social fabric."
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Projects
Inside Victor Body-Lawson’s Mission to Humanize Public Housing
Combining experience at Davis Brody Bond and his own paintings from his studio, the New York architect aims to enhance the lives of residents.