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The disappearance of such affordable homes is central to the American housing crisis. The nation has a deepening shortage of housing. But, more specifically, there isn’t enough of this housing: small, no-frills homes that would give a family new to the country or a young couple with student debt a foothold to build equity. [...]
At the root is the math problem of putting — or keeping — a low-cost home on increasingly pricey land.
— The New York Times
America has a long history of gradually siphoning away architecture made for predominantly middle-class people (think pre-war buildings in Manhattan or Levittown tract housing on Long Island) and is now simply under-delivering what could otherwise be an equalizing force as a result of prevailing... View full entry
After five years of construction, MVRDV’s highly-touted mixed-use Valley project has officially opened in Amsterdam. Behind the under-construction Canyon, recently-completed Grotius Towers, and last year’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen project, the three-tower scheme represents one of the... View full entry
A historically significant mid-century modern home designed by SCI-Arc founding director Ray Kappe has hit the market in Glendale, California, for an asking price of just under $2.2 million. The Pasadena Star is reporting the recent listing of Kappe’s Goetschel House, a 1954 commission that was... View full entry
According to a new report by apartment search website RentCafe, New York City is projected to deliver the most newly-built apartments in 2022, claiming the top position for the first time since 2018. Despite pandemic-induced setbacks in the last two years, New York City is expected to... View full entry
An opening date has been set for the exciting new Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) project in the South Bronx. Located on the site claiming to be the birthplace of hip hop, the new $80 million museum, which is part of a larger $349 million mixed-use residential development called Bronx Point, will... View full entry
HWKN has shared photos of its latest addition to the skyline of Jersey City, New Jersey, called 351 Marin. The building, designed in partnership with executive architect HLW, topped out last fall and has recently achieved full tenancy, something developers KRE Group shares is a bellwether for... View full entry
Tel Aviv-based Bar Orian Architects has unveiled a new residential project that blends past and present by integrating two contemporary buildings with a historic, early 20th-century villa. The development, titled Villa Rothschild, sits along Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard. The original... View full entry
A Gehry Partners proposal to redevelop Miami’s historic Deauville Beach Resort into a luxury hotel and condominium dubbed Equinox Towers is gaining traction after officials there agreed to move the plan to public vote on Wednesday. The firm’s initial concept model of the project revealed to... View full entry
Five years after being first announced, Dutch mainstay MVRDV’s Grotius Towers apartment scheme has been completed in The Hague, the country’s third largest city. In a project announcement, the studio described their new creation rather accurately as “an eye-catching new addition to the... View full entry
Eric Owen Moss has shared photos of his self-designed private residence overlooking the coastline on a small 30’ by 50’ plot in Los Angeles’ beach-adjacent Pacific Palisades neighborhood. The former SCI-Arc Director’s new A+M home is inspired by the Case Study homes published by... View full entry
The latest data from the American Institute of Architects shows a continued increase in a homebuilding trend that began in the throes of the pandemic and has not abated in the face of supply-chain shortages and several countervailing trends in the residential construction market. According to... View full entry
The new construction is part of planning by Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, who said he envisioned a new, more resilient Ukraine after this war and is revamping his city’s infrastructure to prepare for an almost constant state of conflict […] for those displaced by war, Anton Kolomeytsev is envisioning something much less adorned, but no less graceful. — The New York Times
According to the New York Times, Lviv, Ukraine’s westernmost major city with a population of approximately 800,000, could face a war-fed refugee increase of around 50,000 persons if the process of internal displacement continues at its current pace. Recently updated building codes means the wave... View full entry
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has unveiled the design for a 17-story, 408,000-square-foot residential tower in Miami’s Mid Beach neighborhood. The Perigon, located at 5333 Collins Avenue, will sit at the center of a rare section of Miami Beach that spans from the small... View full entry
2022 is speeding along, and with March quickly approaching, this means another Dodge Construction Network report has been released. In January, total construction starts increased 4% to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of $923.4 billion. Nonresidential building starts increased 4% and nonbuilding... View full entry
As part of the firm’s desire to fill the “middle market” of residential housing options with inspiring contemporary architecture, Chicago-based practice Future Firm has designed a new 1,300-square-foot residential project, called Hem House, that has provided the city with a sustainable... View full entry
