Tabasco 127 by JSa
Glass-fronted apartments are set behind sheltered balconies at this concrete residential block in Mexico City by architects JSa (+ slideshow). More
Glass-fronted apartments are set behind sheltered balconies at this concrete residential block in Mexico City by architects JSa (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen Wire: as the shortage of housing in the UK worsens, British architects including Charles Holland of FAT, Glenn Howells and Sarah Wigglesworth offer their opinions and solutions - The Guardian
"I'd like to see more rent regulation and buildings reused in creative ways," says Holland, while Wigglesworth suggests that "what we need is greater flexibility."
The article follows the news that New York City are seeking designs for “micro-units” to help solve the shortage of of small apartments in Manhattan.
Balconies of these two apartment blocks in northwest France by architect Philippe Gazeau protrude like a set of open drawers. More
Dezeen Wire: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a competition to design "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of of small apartments in Manhattan. More
Apartments in this raw concrete block in Tokyo by architects Key Operation feature indoor balconies that look over both the street and internal stairwells, so neighbours can see who's coming and going (+ slideshow). More
Architects Colboc Franzen & Associés have masked the facade and balconies of three apartment blocks in the south of France behind curved galvanised-steel grids. More
Slideshow: Japanese studios Snark and Ouvi have completed two apartment blocks in Takasaki City that look like clusters of two-storey houses. More
Slideshow: none of the elongated rooms inside this curvy apartment block in Osaka are more than two metres wide. More
Shiny corrugated metal clads the two cascading stacks of apartments that make up this block in Paris by architect Stephane Maupin. More
Huge window bays project from the fat cylindrical volume of this apartment block in Tilburg, the Netherlands, by Dutch architects Bedaux de Brouwer. More
This concrete social-housing block in Paris has artists' studios on the ground floor and an oval-shaped opening in the roof. More
Perforated metal balconies fold like ribbons around the facade of an apartment block in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. More
These four concrete apartment blocks by Spanish architects TASH were only completed last year, but they already look strangely abandoned in these photographs. More
London studio Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a housing complex for the western outskirts of Paris. More
French studio Explorations Architecture have completed a social housing block beside one of the narrowest streets in Paris. More
Construction of this apartment block with a stepped elevation by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is due to commence this summer in Monterrey, Mexico. More
Swiss architects Group8 have completed this residential block covered in pink sun screens in Geneva. More
This apartment building by Austrian architects LOVE architecture is part of the ongoing redevelopment of the port of Hamburg, Germany. More
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design multistorey, prefabricated wooden housing for Kouvola, Finland. More
Japanese firm Takeshi Yamagata Architects have squeezed four buildings containing nine apartments onto a small suburban site in Tokyo. More