A model for healthy living and resilience, the Edwin M. Lee Apartments is the first building in San Francisco to combine supportive housing for both unhoused veterans and low-income families. This collaboration—Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Saida + Sullivan Design Partners, Swords to Plowshares, and Chinatown Community Development Center—supports an integrated, equitable, and sustainable community in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood.
Salvaged and upcycled materials add character to Costa Rican artist Juli Bolaños-Durman’s renovated Edinburgh flat, which she designed in collaboration with Architecture Office. Bolaños-Durman, who is known for her work in glass and her use of waste materials, prioritised sustainability and comfort when devising a brief for La Casita, which she says translates as “the
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UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans for Symphony Tower, a residential skyscraper in Dubai that will be enclosed by an illuminated lattice structure. Set to rise 160 metres along the Dubai Creek, the Symphony Tower will contain apartments within a modular stainless steel and concrete structure lined with staggered terraces. Zaha Hadid Architects
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Double-bullnose brick referencing the older parks of Singapore informed the renovation of In a Park, a flat redesigned by architecture studio L Architects. Located in Singapore’s Hougang neighbourhood, the 98-square-metre (1,054-square-foot) flat was designed for a couple who began gardening during the Covid lockdown and wanted to refresh their home to accommodate an expanding collection of
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When the clients found the rooftop apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, the thing they liked the most about it was how the wind blew over the roofs from one side of the apartment to the other when all the doors to each of the rooms were open. There were a lot of walls making a lot of small spaces that were cut off from each other.
With Palazzo, Benthem Crouwel Architects completes the Paleiskwartier in Hertogenbosch – a robust, warm, and open residential building that literally embraces the city. Commissioned by BV Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Paleiskwartier, Palazzo marks the culmination of more than thirty years of urban development around the Central Station – an area where living, working, and meeting converge. Palazzo brings the whole together and gives new life to the district. The building deliberately faces the city, creates space for the square, and invites people to connect.
Located in Puigpunyent, Mallorca, this project led by the IBAVI (Balearic Housing Institute) proposes a building designed with criteria of sustainability, energy efficiency, and respect for the natural environment. To achieve this, the project develops from a model of local economy that recovers trades, construction systems, and passive strategies inherent to the native island culture.
Ergonomic kitchens fitted with Fisher & Paykel appliances feature in this eight-apartment building in Auckland, as shown in this video produced by Dezeen for the luxury kitchen brand. Designed by local architecture studio Monk Mackenzie in collaboration with developer Artifact, Jervois Apartments sits on a ridgeline in the central Auckland suburb of Herne Bay.
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French design firm Studio Asaï has revamped a residence in Paris informed by the vibrant nightlife of London’s “swinging sixties”. Overlooking the Bois de Boulogne, the 320-square-metre apartment was designed for a young family relocating from London and comprises two living spaces, a library, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen and a separate dining area.
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Multidisciplinary design studio Weinbenami has subtly renovated an apartment in Antwerp, mixing in new elements among its original 1960s features. The apartment, set in a modernist residential building from 1969, used to belong to the owner’s grandparents. Its rooms were covered in aged wallpaper, crammed with furniture and generally felt quite confined. But Weinbenami still
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