In Johannesburg, a massive residential shipping container development exemplifies a popular housing alternative among South Africans. Plus: Watch an exclusive clip of a forthcoming documentary about LOT-EK.

A contextual mid-rise in Stockholm flaunts a community-oriented design.

A strategic infill in Paris makes the most of an unusually shaped lot.

A relic from London's industrial past is reinvented as a complex of upscale apartments.

A pair of towers in Coconut Grove, south of downtown Miami, uses inventive architecture and engineering to swivel in place.

With affordable housing, a squash club, and a fire station, a building animates a prominent corner in Washington, D.C.

In L.A.’s Koreatown, an apartment building with a punchy facade enlivens the street.

An apartment building in São Paulo engages with its neighbors, rather than turning its back on them.

An architect designs a fourth low-cost housing project for a longtime client, this one outside the urban core, in Van Nuys, California.

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