Chaves House, Vila Real, Portugal home

Chaves House Vila Real Portugal home

Chaves House is not only a response to a place—it is a mediation between architecture and nature. NOARQ saw the site’s fragility as a design opportunity, turning a seemingly unbuildable plot into a home that hovers lightly above the earth. Its form is born from respect: for water, for light, and for the land it inhabits in Portugal

Valckensteyn, Rotterdam timber residential building

Valckensteyn Rotterdam timber apartment building

Valckensteyn, Rotterdam’s first mass timber residential building, provides 82 affordable rental homes in Pendrecht. Designed by Powerhouse Company for housing corporation Woonstad Rotterdam, the project reinterprets the former Valckensteyn, a postwar residential building

Micro housing new mission, USA homes

Arcadia Flats student housing Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

Micro Housing’s New Mission article by Aeron Hodges, Principal, Architecture, Stantec. Why developers and state governments are taking a fresh look at compact living in multifamily developments. Attainable housing is a challenge in North America’s urban areas like Boston, Toronto, Vancouver, New York City, and Washington, DC.

Reve en Suspens, Voula, Athenian Riviera housing

Reve en Suspens Voula Athenian Riviera housing

314 architecture studio presents Rêve en suspens, a luxury residential development in Voula, a coastal suburb on the Athenian Riviera. This multi-family housing project redefines residential living through an architectural language inspired by nature, movement, and light

Ossington Avenue Housing, Toronto, Ontario

Ossington Avenue Housing Toronto Ontario

A new supportive housing development at Ossington Avenue, designed by mcCallumSather, is providing 25 permanent rent-geared-to-income homes for people exiting in chronic homelessness while demonstrating an alternative approach to affordable housing construction in Toronto

Kosmalt Housing, Košice, Slovakia building

Kosmalt Housing Košice Slovakia homes

Atrium Architekti’s aim of the comprehensive renovation of both the exterior and the interior of Kosmalt was to preserve the identity of the structure, rehabilitate its original qualities and at the same time adapt it to today’s housing requirements in Košice, Slovakia

Zdar Wooden Housing, Vysocina, Czech Republic

Zdar Wooden Housing Vysocina building

The urban layout of the Zdar Wooden Housing, by Kuba & Pilař architekti, is based on the principle of a traditional city block, which defines a hierarchy and character of spaces—from public street areas, through semi-private courtyards in Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic