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Restyling Blandmarks: Those Much Maligned Boxy Urban Condo Buildings

From Seattle to New York City, Minneapolis to Dallas, boxy apartment and condo buildings sporting bland facades, metallic or colored cladding and a generally flat aesthetic seem to dominate new ...

Contain Us: Apartment Made Of 140 Shipping Containers

Drivelines Studios is a low-rise residential apartment building in Johannesburg, SA, constructed from 140 re-purposed metal shipping containers. Drivelines Studios is a residential ...

Cabin of Curiosities: 3D-Printed Building Covered in Tiny Succulent Planters

4,500 3D-printed ceramic tiles cover the facade of the ‘Cabin of Curiosities’ in Oakland, an experimental structure showing off how beautiful additive manufacturing can be. The facade ...

7 Students, 1 Tiny Apartment: Ultra-Compact Co-Living Design by Fabrica

Space and privacy are increasingly valuable commodities in cities, and many people on tight budgets find themselves in living situations that feel more than a little cramped. The average student ...

Brutalist Reality: Tower Blocks Can Be Dystopia For Real-Life Residents

Architecture enthusiasts might love the cold, harsh lines of Brutalist buildings, but for the people who actually live in the iconic London tower blocks and other modernist complexes for ...

Nesting Architecture: Folding Models of Eastern Bloc Buildings

This series of recycled cardboard models references both the functional styles of postwar Soviet architecture as well as the Russian tradition of handcrafted nesting dolls. In ...

Cities of Tomorrow: Refugee Camps Require Longer-Term Thinking

Former mayor of the world's second-largest refugee camp, humanitarian Kilian Kleinschmidt notes "the average stay today in a camp is 17 years. That's a generation." These places need to be ...

Plug & Play Homes: Mobile Modules Slot into Urban Frameworks

Coming to Austin next year, this mobile housing strategy takes portable living out of trailer parks, plugging you straight into the city grid and allowing you to easily hop metropolises on demand ...

Dirt Cheap: World’s Largest 3D Mud Printer Makes Green Homes

Able to print full-sized structures from mud and clay, this 40-foot-tall 3D printer represents a huge step toward printing affordable housing from free materials. The project was unveiled ...

Room in a Box: Portable Tool-Free Bedroom Set in 30 Minutes

Containing a room's worth of essential furniture you can take on the bus or train, this all-in-one-box solution costs just $150, is easier to assemble than IKEA equivalents and much lighter too, ...

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