Public housing is not as uniform as people think.
Image 3 of 16 from gallery of 28 Social Housing In Paris / KOZ Architectes. Photograph by Guillaume Grasseet
It was a year that celebrated new dawns. From plywood to postmodernism, from the return of council housing to a Cornish art gallery, our critic picks his highlights
Image 1 of 34 from gallery of Social Housing in Can Batlló / Espinet / Ubach. Photograph by Pedro Pegenaute
Most people probably think of Lancaster as very much a county town but in the nineteenth century it emerged as a major industrial centre and one with typical problems of slum housing and the new im…
Built by Conxita Balcells in Tiana, Spain with date 2009. Images by Marcela Grassi. Here we present a new project of the Catalan office Conxita Balcells, an architect who belongs to the collective Pl...
My thanks to Alex Ball for writing this fascinating account of Nottingham’s impressive early council housing efforts. There is still much work to be accomplished before the complete solution …
Public housing is not as uniform as people think.
It was a year that celebrated new dawns. From plywood to postmodernism, from the return of council housing to a Cornish art gallery, our critic picks his highlights
Image 2 of 21 from gallery of 317 Social Housing Units / SV60. Photograph by Jesús Granada
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Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, usually with the aim of providing affordable housing. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, definitions of poverty and other criteria
Speaking to the residents of some of the UK's most famous housing estates about the systematic erasure of subsidized housing.
Completed in 2013 in Paris, France. Images by Philippe Ruault. The building is located in the 19th district of Paris, between the Ourcq canal and the 'petite ceinture' railroads, today out of use. The...
Image 13 of 21 from gallery of 317 Social Housing Units / SV60. Photograph by Jesús Granada
Image 12 of 18 from gallery of 114 Public Housing Units / Sauquet Arquitectes i Associats. Plan
Image 1 of 18 from gallery of Torrelles Public Housing / BBarquitectes. Photograph by Filippo Poli
Completed in 2018 in Paris, France. Images by Joachim Bakary, Jean-Marc Bichat. Clichy Avenue, at the corner of Bernard Buffet Street, the architects, Stéphane Bigoni and Antoine Mortemard recently completed a social housing...
Image 11 of 18 from gallery of 114 Public Housing Units / Sauquet Arquitectes i Associats. Photograph by Jordi Surroca
BooksJohn Boughton’s book on the rise and fall of council housing couldn’t come at a better time, says Rosamund Lily West
Gombe gubernatorial candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Khamisu Mailantarki, has offered to pay for external examinations of stu
The brutalist Alexandra Road Council Estate -- cluster housing designed by Neave Brown for Camden Council's Architects Department AKA the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate NW8, designed in 1968 - 69, construction began 1972, completed 1978.
Image 16 of 27 from gallery of Social Housing in Paris / Bigoni Mortemard. Photograph by Joachim Bakary
Image 4 of 20 from gallery of 172 Social Housing Building / Alfonso Alzugaray. Photograph by César San Millán
Completed in 2007 in Porto, Portugal. Images by João Ferrand. The (re)designing of this part of the city had its starting point at the recognition of the significant permanence of the surrounding urban...
The waiting list for a council house seems to get longer all the time. Want to know how to get a council house quicker? We have the answers!
The Sydney Affordable Housing Challenge calls for ideas that try to solve the affordable housing shortage in Sydney. Many of the successful entries offer more than just housing — they design spaces that build communities. See the incredible winning projects that re-imagine affordable housing.
The UK charity Shelter believes 277,000 people are now homeless in England and 3.1 million people need a 'social home'Social housing offers tenants on low incomes secure and affordable rents (owned by local councils or housing associations) UK social housing provision relies on private investment Bu…
Image 3 of 25 from gallery of 154 Rental Social Housing And Public Building For The Barcelona Municipal Housing / ONL Arquitectura. Photograph by Gianluca Giaccone
Image 7 of 25 from gallery of Inventive Council Housing / Levitt Bernstein. Photograph by Tim Crocker
Completed in 2015 in Paris, France. Images by Frédéric Delangle. At a stone’s throw from the Centre Pompidou, the building complex at 25 rue Michel le Comte is located within the Marais Historical Protection and...
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Image 20 of 68 from gallery of 26 Low-energy Public Housing Units and Shops / aEa - agence Engasser + associés. Photograph by Mathieu Ducros
