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rendering of entrance to a housing complex designed by GBL Architects
Expanding Housing Equity

Canada’s first development by an all-female team gets green-lit in Vancouver

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Expropriate Or Bust

Berliners vote to socialize 200,000 rental properties in non-binding referendum

urban plaza with pavilion at center
A Twist On A Classic

MVRDV designs pavilion in honor of 500th anniversary of world’s oldest social housing foundation

Exterior rendering of a basket-themed building for First Nations peoples
Long Live The Big Basket!

Basket-inspired, passive social housing could be coming to Vancouver

A street cutting between two brick housing masses
PassivHaus Perfection

Super energy-efficient social housing claims the 2019 RIBA Stirling Prize

(Tim Crocker)
Cook's Camden

What can architects learn from London’s best social and urban housing projects?

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Tower Re-Order

Here are the improvements that residents want after the Grenfell tower fire

Grenfell Tower fire (Natalie Oxford/Wikimedia Commons)
Grim Conclusion

Leaked Grenfell report concludes fire would not have spread prior to renovation

The husk of Grenfell Tower is still standing on the Lancaster West Estate, but it may not be for long. (PaulSHird/Flickr)
Rethinking Social Housing

Adjaye Associates to help reimagine Grenfell Tower estate

(Courtesy VSF Archives)
Longterm Legacies

Pritzker winner Balkrishna Doshi forges an architecture of place in an age of placelessness

robin hood gardens building
Concrete Plans

Facade fragment of Robin Hood Gardens will be shown at Venice Biennale

Compare and Contrast

European social housing show presents thinking outside the box

Neaver Let Go

2018 RIBA Royal Gold Medal awarded to Neave Brown, social housing pioneer

Alejandro Aravena of ELEMENTAL Wins 2016 Pritzker Prize

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