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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Exterior Louisiana Prien Lake Home Located on an estuary of Prien Lake, straddling the Louisiana/Texas border, Pelican House exudes an elevated cabin aesthetic. Embraced and hammered by nature, Pelican House has withstood four hurricanes, both during and after construction.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Social Housing 1737 / HARQUITECTES. Image Adria Goula The housing crisis , the need for effective land management policies , and the growing demand for housing aid are global challenges, and Spain has taken significant steps to address these issues in recent years. Read more

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Under state laws designed to remedy a housing shortage, the city has to set aside land for the construction of 250,000 more homes than allowed through existing zoning rules. Planners face a state mandate to find space for at least 250,000 new housing units by mid-February. Others have labeled this plan as exclusionary for that reason.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In Britain, as our government has promised, we’re going to have a “council housing revolution”, the building of as yet unknown numbers of homes at genuinely affordable rents, a return to policies of 50 and more years ago in order to address the well-known housing crisis. Which is welcome.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A modular student housing project at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo will help students who have been displaced by the recent Los Angeles Fires is about to begin. California is currently facing a student housing crisis affecting more than 400,000 students statewide.

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Archinect

MARCH 18, 2025

A rare early example of Frank Lloyd Wright ’s residential designs in Chicago , the Walser House from 1903, has been identified as endangered by the group Preservation Chicago. the recently donated Emil Bach House) and has been unoccupied for the last six years, left to vandalism and unprotected from weather conditions.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The winner of this year's RIBA International Emerging Architect award has been named by the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) as the Chinese-based practice ARCity Office for their Six Bricolage Houses project in Shenzhen, China.

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Archinect

JANUARY 14, 2025

Snøhetta has offered an update on construction progress at the Busan Opera House in Busan , South Korea. The Norway-based firm won the competition for the scheme’s design back in 2012 , proposing a new opera house along the city’s northern seaport.

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Archinect

MARCH 18, 2025

A new design challenge from Buildner and SAR+ Architects that asked architects to solve Colorado’s complex housing crisis using a single-stair (aka Point Access Block) design strategy has named five winners at the conclusion of the 18th competition in the former’s Affordable Housing Challenge series.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The fourth RIBA International Prize has been awarded to the Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing complex in Cornellà, Spain by Peris + Toral Arquitectes for 2024. The design arranges five to six modules worth approximately 139 square feet apiece into 85 homes inspired by Japanese design with 18 on each floor.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2025

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has concluded its new National Housing Survey with the U.S. It is estimated that 69% of Americans are very concerned about the rising cost of housing," the Conference’s CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran said. "In In fact, U.S. home prices have skyrocketed over 40% since 2020.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

The Banyan House is a 3 bed/bath 1,574-square-foot A-frame design infused with desert masonry inspiration. Its Frank Lloyd Wright -designed neighbor in the Northern California literary haunt, the Mrs. Clinton Walker House from 1952, sold in early 2023 for $22 million.

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Archinect

JANUARY 23, 2025

The project is called Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization (or ARCHER) at House 88. A new UNESCO -backed project geared toward human rights and ending antisemitism has named Daniel Libeskind as the architect who will transform the former private home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a learning center.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 30, 2025

Villa Verde Housing / ELEMENTAL. Image Suyin Chia From May 10 to November 23, 2025, a carbon-neutral housing project designed by Elemental , the firm led by Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena , will be showcased at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Courtesy of Architektros fondas Throughout 2024, ArchDaily, in collaboration with the Open House Europe architecture event, brought inspiring projects and stories to light. Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theater. Image Birut Petrukait.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Image credit: Samara Why the role interests us In the same week that our Meet Your Next Employer series profiled the work of Cover , the open role that Samara offers us the opportunity to profile another California-based housing startup focused on delivering prefabricated housing.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Led by instructors Julia Sulzer and Sascha Delz, the Adaptive P/Re-use studios explored new possibilities for adaptive reuse schemes and non-speculative housing models as weapons to combat the crises of affordable housing and accessible urban services in Los Angeles.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Village provides permanent housing solutions and supportive care for those experiencing chronic homelessness. Village is underway in an effort to combat homelessness in the Austin , Texas area. The only neighborhood of its kind in the nation, Community First!

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The recent total loss of Eric Owen Moss ' 708 House design from 1982 in the Pacific Palisades Fire has been documented by the Los Angeles Conservancy and its current owner Ed Massey, who told The Hollywood Reporter , "It was serene and beautiful all in one."

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2025

Efforts currently underway to amend existing building and construction codes in order to create more affordable housing could soon be boosted via the removal of a long-held and potentially outdated requirement—the need for two egress routes in multifamily buildings with heights up to six stories. A final appr.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Courtesy of ELEMENTAL A year after the Via del Mar mega-fire in Chile and with reconstruction efforts progressing at just 26% , the architecture firm ELEMENTAL and local authorities have begun construction on a prefabricated housing project in one of the residential neighborhoods most affected by the disaster. Read more

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A new report from Hilgard Analytics and Zenith Economics has the numbers behind the turndown complicating LA’s multi-pronged housing crunch. According to the available Los Angeles City Council data, the number of new permits this year has fallen 30.7% on pace toward a new five-year low.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Modernism played an undeniable role in the renewal of architectural ideals, contributing a new attitude toward understanding new ways of living, construction techniques, and aesthetics, marking profound changes in the general perception of the world.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The results of the recent Kharkiv Housing Challenge have been shared by Buildner as part of the Kharkiv Masterplan project from the Kharkiv City Council, UNECE, the Norman Foster Foundation , Arup , and the Kharkiv Architects Group. Other secondary considerations included the rebuilding of damaged structures.

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Archinect

MARCH 28, 2025

Image: Ben Hosking Located in Federal, New South Wales, Australia , Federal House stands out through its black pigmented concrete and black timber battens amidst the green, hinterland location. The home is positioned on the slope of its hillside site.

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2025

International design competition platform Volume Zero has announced the results of the Tiny House 2024 Architecture Competition. The winning designs thereby afforded clients the chance to be off the grid as much as possible. Volume Zero says they "re-imagine sustainability through the concept of maximum usable space in a minimum footprint."

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ArchDaily

APRIL 10, 2025

Nukui House: Transforming a 1976 Tokyo Home Through Practical Renovation Located in the quiet residential streets of Nukui, Tokyo, Nukui House is a. Completed in 2024 in Japan. Images by Akira Nakamura.

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MARCH 18, 2025

A new challenge from Buildner and SAR+ Architects that asked architects to solve Colorado’s complex housing crisis using a single-stair (aka Point Access Block) design strategyhas named five winners at the conclusion of the 18th competition in the former’s Affordable Housing Challenge series.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Studio MK27 ’s Canopy House was completed in July of 2023 under the direction of architect Marcio Kogan and co-designers Regiane Leão and Marcio Tanaka. Archinect has received images of a new private residential design in the coastal city of Guarujá, Brazil.

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MARCH 5, 2025

The two-stage competition is intended to challenge architects to first develop a "residential imaginary for a postsuburban world where infill, shared amenities, and compact communities present viable alternatives to the detached house." Submissions are due by April 20th, 2025.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The house is located near the city of Braslia, in SMDB, a predominantly individual residences sector, with its plot neighboring a park, a. Completed in 2021 in Braslia, Brazil. Images by Joana Frana.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Today, the overall winner of the New London Architecture Awards for Social Housing Innovation has been named as the Tower Court project in Hackney from Adam Khan Architects, muf architecture/art, Child Graddon Lewis , and Daisy Froud.

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APRIL 17, 2025

A sheltered external walkway connects two wings of this pavilion-like house in New South Wales, Australia , designed by local studio DFJ Architects to facilitate family gatherings. The primary house was designed to be as small as possible, limiting the use of space and material. The photography is courtesy of DFJ Architects.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Designer Tim Fu has unveiled plans for a housing development close to Slovenia 's Lake Bled, which he claims is the first architecture project to use AI at all design stages. Project data such as site conditions, heritage guidelines and spatial requirements was fed to the LLMs, which then gave solutions to help inform the housing design.

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MARCH 21, 2025

Costa Rican design firm Studio Saxe has used stilts to elevate part of the round courtyard house Sinfornia Verde in the rainforest of the Peninsula de Osa. The 400-square metre (4,305-square foot) house in Carate, Costa Rica was built in a clearing in the forest canopy created by a fallen tree.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2025

The result is Freja House—a Scandinavian-inspired custom home and accessory dwelling unit (ADU) that prioritizes energy efficiency, functional interior space, and thoughtful indoor-outdoor living. The project team aimed for Passive House certification but recognized full certification would be challenging given site limitations.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Aufgang Architects with OSD ’s adaptive reuse of the former JFK Hilton a t John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City is underway. The once 350-room hotel is being renamed Baisley Pond Park Residences, a 318-unit development for formerly houseless persons for a nonprofit client called the RiseBoro Community Partnership.

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