We don’t *just* need to build more homes, but also retrofit our existing homes to reduce energy bills and improve comfort
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
15.06.2025 07:07 — 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Shameful really
One of the big contributors is our poor quality of housing. You can rate the thermal performance of housing on a star rating of 0-10.
The average star rating of Australian homes built before 2003? 1.8 stars…
15.06.2025 07:07 — 👍 82 🔁 23 💬 9 📌 0
Cladding made from reclaimed railway sleepers - looks fantastic!
By Reed Watts Architects and Allies & Morrison
timberdevelopment.uk/roundhouse-w...
15.06.2025 07:06 — 👍 123 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 1
Such simple, beautiful social housing. One main material used externally, no set backs, simple form and generousity of external space (just look at that balcony!)
21 apartments in Lyon by Rue Royale Architects and Claire Tournier
08.06.2025 06:52 — 👍 184 🔁 32 💬 6 📌 1
Lovely scale of urban infill by West of West, proposed for LA
A winning scheme in the Small Lots, Big Impacts competition
07.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 45 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I mean, come on….
06.06.2025 07:13 — 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
I will never get over the architectural quality of Swiss schools
This is a 14 classroom school by CURA Architekten
06.06.2025 07:13 — 👍 136 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 1
I don’t think people realise quite how inequitable development is globally
In the US there is 30x more built up volume (buildings and infrastructure) per person than in Bangladesh
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
02.06.2025 11:39 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
More….
31.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Mass timber office building in Lyon, by BFV Architectes
Top notch detailing
31.05.2025 06:59 — 👍 90 🔁 12 💬 7 📌 0
London has become a cycling city
archive.is/8YEjR
29.05.2025 07:33 — 👍 610 🔁 124 💬 10 📌 17
Adaptive reuse of a 1927 post office building in Brest into 93 apartments
By Chatillon Architectes
www.dezeen.com/2025/05/25/b...
27.05.2025 07:18 — 👍 76 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
This is quite impressive from one of the UK’s largest house builders
They should roll it out across the whole country
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413943...
26.05.2025 07:05 — 👍 52 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
Lovely against a blue sky as well
26.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Simple and effective articulation of this apartment building in Qom, Iran, provides visual interest but also creates shade and amenity for residents
By Siyagh Studio
26.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 53 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Nice piece of urban infill in Bushehr, Iran
Apartments with a mix of shade, brick texture and greenery. By Mehdi Baghbani
24.05.2025 07:07 — 👍 44 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Would definitely live there…
24.05.2025 07:01 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
15 social housing apartments in Paris by MAO Architects
Again, a stone facade with timber shutters
Building cost = €1.9m
24.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 74 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 1
Stunning…
23.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This has got to be one of the best train stations built in the 21st Century?
Naples underground central station by EBMT Architects
23.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 176 🔁 27 💬 6 📌 4
This is very nice
More on the architects’ website here www.m-a-o.fr
23.05.2025 06:48 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
15 social housing apartments in Paris
Concrete frame, with a solid stone facade and timber shutters. Looks wonderful, despite a compact and challenging site.
Cost = €2.7m
23.05.2025 06:47 — 👍 96 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 3
The detailing of Farshad Mehdizadeh’s Goldstan Residence building in Iran is looking sharp
Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look
23.05.2025 06:36 — 👍 50 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
I like this…
22.05.2025 07:22 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
This is only a render, but it promises to be a beautiful series of homes
Brick apartments in Tabriz, Iran, by Saeed Davatgari and Samira Amini
22.05.2025 07:22 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
New Parisian housing has some of the most interesting floor plans
This is a mix of duplex and single-storey homes by Ignacio Prego Architectures
22.05.2025 07:13 — 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Design for an adobe museum in Saudi Arabia by Zaha Hadid Architects
Quite the departure from their usual work
www.dezeen.com/2025/05/21/a...
22.05.2025 07:04 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Close up
19.05.2025 11:18 — 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Lovely piece of urban infill in Paris
New apartment building with a loadbearing limestone facade and timber floors, by Minuit Architects
19.05.2025 11:17 — 👍 101 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 4
Celebrate shade…
www.archdaily.com/943666/dorsh...
17.05.2025 08:01 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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