"'Housing for dirty people' is back and I welcome it"
Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK, but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto. More
Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK, but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto. More
British studio David Chipperfield Architects has revealed plans for a housing project in Antwerp that will adjoin a 60-tree fruit orchard. More
As we continue our Timber Revolution series, we look at Australia's first mass-timber high-rise apartment building, which was built from cross-laminated timber grown in Austria. More
Architecture studio The DHaus Company has completed The Arches, a row of six brick-clad townhouses in a north London conservation area. More
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House have designed a modular prototype that can be configured to construct low-cost housing. More
Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has created a residential building in the forested Bosrijk park in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, which is wrapped by colonnades of tree trunks. More
The second case study in our Timber Revolution series is Murray Grove, a London housing tower by Waugh Thistleton that has a superstructure built almost entirely from cross-laminated timber. More
US studio Gluck+ has completed Van Sinderen Plaza, a social housing project that stretches along an elevated subway line in a low-income district and is meant to be "a gateway for the community". More
The first of our Timber Revolution case studies looks at an innovative, early example of mass-timber multi-storey housing, designed by Austrian studio HK Architekten in the 1990s. More
Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed a pair of apartments in central Tel Aviv which are organised around a mini courtyard filled with trees. More
SinHei Kwok has designed and built a sculptural apartment complex that is meant to offer an alternative to the low-density housing found in Phoenix, Arizona's sprawling capital. More
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a mass-timber tenement-style housing development by Scottish studio Fraser/Livingstone. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
Mexican studio Miguel de la Torre Arquitectos has unveiled the coloured concrete Real de Los Reyes housing complex in Mexico City's Coyoacán neighbourhood. More
Scottish studio Fraser/Livingstone has completed a mass-timber tenement-style housing development in Edinburgh named Simon Square. More
Studio CL has created a concrete apartment block in Chile made out of precast concrete that was designed as a prototype for a multi-family housing unit. More
California studio Bittoni Architects has completed Common Melrose, a communal living complex with 23 bedrooms that is meant to be an "affordable alternative to traditional living arrangements". More
Indonesia has announced plans to begin the construction of 184 apartment blocks that will mark the first stage of development of its new capital Nusantara. More
From Glasgow to Somerset, here are historian John Boughton's picks of the UK's most interesting public housing schemes featured in his latest book, A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates. More
Off-white stucco walls and a round staircase characterise the Chiripa housing complex in Mexico, which architecture studio Palma designed as a "hybrid" experiment merging residential and hotel-style living. More
A sweeping form of stepped balconies that overlook the IJ waterfront defines the De Jakoba social housing in Amsterdam, designed by local practice Studioninedots. More