Multifamily Housing Architecture

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In Zurich, the conversion of a 170-year-old single-family house and adjacent workshops into apartments is a study in contrasts.

A firm’s second project for the New York nonprofit Breaking Ground provides permanent affordable housing for the chronically homeless.

Visit any prosperous city these days, particularly in the U.S., and here’s what you’ll see: an abundance of housing on the rise.

In housing-strapped Los Angeles, city officials are counting on multifamily developments, as well as small-lot single-family homes, to boost capacity and stabilize soaring prices.

A new structure in Germany completes an unfinished century-old building by replicating its scale and adding some funk.

New York is infamous for its small living spaces—an apartment so teeny that its occupants must use the oven for storage, or a tenement so tight that the bathtub is in the kitchen.

When Michel Rojkind calls Highpark “extroverted,” you might think, “It takes one to know one.” An exuberant character, the Mexico City–based architect is rarely at a loss for words or enthusiasm. His new housing project in Monterrey, a major industrial and business center in northeast Mexico, shares his outgoing personality—engaging its urban context and striking an animated profile on the street.