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Multifamily Housing 2024

5468796 Architecture Adjoins a Pair of Sleek Apartment Buildings to a No-Frills Historic Restoration Project

Winnipeg, Manitoba

May 2, 2024

A financially savvy design incorporates materials and technology from industrial boom times to adapt and expand a former pumping station in Winnipeg.

Continuing Education: Affordable Housing and Energy Performance

Katharine Logan

May 1, 2024

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Three housing developments—in the Bronx, Bay Area, and Vancouver, B.C.—achieve lofty social and environmental goals on tight budgets.

Multifamily Housing 2024

Michael Maltzan’s Latest Supportive Housing Project Pops with Color

Sarah Amelar

May 1, 2024

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Named for life's marathon-like challenges, the playful 26 Point 2 apartment complex in Long Beach, California, provides residents with communal spaces and on-site services.

Multifamily Housing 2024

May 1, 2024

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A diverse group of North American projects showcases architects breaking through budgetary, spatial, and legal barriers to provide innovative housing solutions.

Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

May 2024 Editor’s Letter

At All Costs

Josephine Minutillo

May 1, 2024

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This month's issue explores how good design can navigate political and economic hurdles to affordable housing.

Featured Houses

Mini Tower One by MODU

Brooklyn, New York

RECORD Editors

April 25, 2024

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Designed to passive-house principles, an airy multi-story addition to a Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, rowhouse adds 30 percent more area to the building while requiring only 12 percent additional energy consumption.

Featured Houses

Alta House by LEVER Architecture

Alta, Wyoming

RECORD Editors

April 24, 2024

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Resilient and super-insulated, this four-bedroom seasonal retreat is clad in contrasting weathering steel and acetylated wood, echoing the geological character of the nearby Teton Range.

Featured Houses

Casa Toro by Estudio Carroll

La Barra, Mexico

RECORD Editors

April 23, 2024

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Situated on Mexico's Pacific Coast, this cylindrical vacation house with dramatic arched openings evokes a modern ruin set amid a lush landscape.

Featured Houses

Synapse House by Baum Lab

Carmona, Spain

RECORD Editors

April 22, 2024

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Primarily built from concrete, wood, and glass, this four-room residence with a star-shaped floor plan rethinks the typical approach to house planning in suburban Spain.

House of the Month

Brent Buck Architects Refashions a Historic Townhouse near the Brooklyn Waterfront

Brooklyn, New York

Leopoldo Villardi

April 17, 2024

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The project’s lucid celebration of craft and materiality came about through a seasoned ensemble of collaborators, from expert carpenters to ‘mudslinging’ plasterers.