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Built to Passivhaus standards, Goldsmith Street’s low-energy approach offers a pioneering approach to the housing crisis

With government support, councils can lead the way in generating clean energy, insulating housing and reskilling staff

International design firm Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel (ACPV) has unveiled designs for the Cascina Merlata Lot R7/2, a social housing complex that will function as a “city within the city” where residents can walk or...

Smart, low-carbon homes were once the preserve of one-off grand designs – now there are up to 30,000 projects in the pipeline

The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments...

Street of 105 homes hailed as high-quality architecture in its most environmentally and socially conscious form

Local architecture practice Benjamin Fleury has completed a residential complex with 26 affordable apartments in Montreuil, a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris...

Earlier this year, the commune of Nogent-le-Rotrou in northern France gained a new social housing development that’s not only an inspiring example of beautiful affordable housing, but is also a model for eco-friendly architecture...

Polish-born artist Piotr Janowski has become well-known for turning buildings and even entire locomotives into shimmery art installations by covering them in thin layers of tin foil...

Hot on the heels of their recently completed National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Dutch firm Mecanoo unveiled their competition-winning social housing designs for the southern Taiwan city...

Mexican studio Comunal Taller de Arquitectura is proving yet again that bamboo is a miracle material when it comes to creating affordable housing options...

The Bluebonnet Studios social housing development in Austin supports a healthy lifestyle through the design. The property, designed by Forge Craft Architecture + Design, provides housing for the homeless, low-income veterans...

The Trinity Apartments set itself apart not only for its design and environmentally friendly features, but also for its genesis. The Directors of k20 Architecture selected and purchased the land and even raised the funds...

Like all great adaptive reuse projects, “South” combines aspects of the building’s original character with a new, updated style. The architects retained the agricultural building’s distinctive gabled form, but gutted...

One of the Goals (Goal 11) is to develop Sustainable cities and communities. The TU Delft has chosen Bambú Social to represent this SDG for her university and made a short movie about the project. Bambú Social is an educational...