Tag: affordable housing
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Returning to housing
# BlogThe Architectural Centre began with the problem of housing, and the questions of how best to build, who and how it should be made and where, have not gone away. The current Centre wants to drive the debate and demonstrate what is possible.
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Affordable (cost-effective sustainable) housing
# HOUSINGUnaffordable dwellings do not have the following characteristics:
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Launch Pad 1: Affordable Housing
It is more that obvious that housing affordability is now a perennial topic. The relatively new distinguishing of “affordable” from “social” housing is also becoming common place. Houses have long been important projects for architects. In Wellington, the WCC’s rejuvenation of its social…
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Video of the Week IX: Le Corbusier’s Mediterranean cabanon comes to London
The blurb says: Le Corbusier’s summer cabin – a tiny bolthole built in the south of France for his wife – has been reconstructed at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Jonathan Glancey steps inside to discover what it tells us about the architect’s other monumental buildings It’s kind of mind-blowing that it is in this space…