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Residential design doesn't have to stop at neat rows of identical apartment buildings or houses, although sometimes it's what is inside a home that can leave the biggest impression. But what's most important is the availability of high-quality housing that suits the various needs for people from... View full entry
North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) announces the 2015 George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist residential design, sponsored by Leland Little Auctions, the Southeast’s premier estate auction gallery, based in Hillsborough, NC.NCMH created the Matsumoto Prize in 2012 to... View full entry
Make It Right, the non-profit organization founded by actor Brad Pitt in 2007, recently revealed six new single-family housing designs for the Manheim Park neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri. The single-family homes will be built on vacant lots directly across the Bancroft School Apartments, an... View full entry
Modernist houses from Asheville to Wilmington received top honors last week in the third annual George Matsumoto Prize for Modernist residential design across the state, sponsored by the award-winning non-profit organization North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH).The houses submitted had to be... View full entry
Four projects -- which all happen to be built in California -- have won in the 2014 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards, as announced by the AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community along with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The annual awards program recognizes what they deem as the best examples of the latest innovation and development in the housing design industry. — bustler.net
Awards were given to one project in four categories.Category One: Excellence in Affordable Housing Design Award - 28th Street Apartments (Los Angeles)By Koning Eizenberg Architects, Inc. Category Two: Creating Community Connection Award - Kelly Cullen Community (San Francisco)By Gelfand Partners... View full entry
There's no place like a good home, simple as that. The AIA announced 10 recipients for the 2014 Housing Awards, which promotes the value of good housing and excellence in housing design.
The jury gave awards in four categories: One/Two Family Custom Housing, One/Two Family Production Housing (none selected this year), Multifamily Housing and Special Housing.
— bustler.net
ONE/TWO FAMILY CUSTOM HOUSINGPictured above: Sol Duc Cabin (Seattle) by Olson Kundig ArchitectsInformal House (South Pasadena, CA) by Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.Kicking Horse Residence (British Columbia) by Bohlin Cywinski JacksonPark Passive (Seattle) by NK ArchitectsTopo House... View full entry
The 21-story, three-building apartment project now rising in Portland's Lloyd District will create more long-term bike parking than any other project in the nation, with four huge new storage facilities in four buildings and an on-site bike valet parking service to serve the biggest one. [...]
Bike experts in Canada, Mexico and across the United States said they didn't know of any single project on the continent with more bike parking; Mexico's largest facility, at a train station, holds 800.
— Bike Portland
Portland, Oregon's new apartment complex by GBD Architects instates a new standard in bicycle infrastructure and planning, offering one bike parking spot each for its 657 housing units, plus underground parking space for as many as 547 bikes. That's 1,204 bike spots total, a number that... View full entry
