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Social Housing
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Projects
A Colorful Portland Prototype Reinvents the SRO
Argyle Gardens, the nation’s first affordable housing project to open during the pandemic, was designed by Holst Architecture to also be replicable.
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Quality Control: Avenier Cornejo Takes on Social Housing in Southeastern Paris
The sunlit 22-unit building features energy-harvesting mechanisms and a brick facade that echoes its 19th-century neighbors.
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In Paris, an Affordable Housing Complex Creates a New Vertical Neighborhood
Designed by Hamonic + Masson & Associates, Rue Camille Claudel offers clever sites for communal gathering and abundant access to the outdoors.
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Profiles
Architect Peter Barber Is Reinventing London’s Housing
Barber, the subject of a recent exhibition at the London Design Museum, is creating practical and fantastical solutions for the city's housing crisis.
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The Smithsons’ Robin Hood Gardens Becomes a Cautionary Tale at the Venice Architecture Biennale
A Ruin in Reverse raises questions about the future of social housing in London and marks the loss of genuine free space
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Projects
Studio Libeskind Tapped to Design Affordable Senior Housing in Brooklyn
The new building, located in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, will create 197 affordable residences for the New York City Housing Authority.
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Viewpoints
New Exhibition Highlights the Best of European Affordable Housing Architecture
Social Housing – New European Projects, which is on view at the Center for Architecture in New York, showcases 25 stand-out projects.
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Profiles
Lacaton & Vassal Have Pioneered a Strategy for Saving France’s Social Housing
Social housing is threatened with demolition nearly everywhere it exists. Two architects have pioneered a strategy for saving these important public assets and the communities that live in them.