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Due to the rising demand for housing, apartments around the world are becoming smaller and smaller. In addition, these plans for housing units do not always provide functional and comfortable living arrangements for its residents, challenging architects to think of ways to turn this situation into something desirable. Below, we've selected ten Brazilian projects that find creative solutions for small-scale housing. 

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Bamboo is an ancient building material that has been used in a variety of countries and building types. A sustainable material with a unique aesthetic, it is arguably one of the greatest architectural trends of the moment.

This material's structural and sustainable qualities demonstrate that bamboo can be three times more resistant than steel and grow about 4 feet (1.22 meter) in just one day.

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• Architects

  ALT Architects + Architecture Office Karsikas

• Location

  Peuranpolku 3, Kuhmo, Finland

• Lead Architects

  Antti Karsikas, Martti Karsikas

• Design Team

  Antti Karsikas, Martti Karsikas, Ville-Pekka Ikola, Tuomas Niemelä, Kalle Vahtera

• Area

  6165.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Ville-Pekka Ikola, Mikko Auerniitty

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects have released plans for a mixed-use shopping and office block to replace 1-2 Broadgate on the City of London campus. The multi-colored block design will include 74,000 square meters of commercial space as part of the revitalization of the iconic 1980s office complex. Linked to Liverpool Street station, the new development would include retail and leisure as part of the new shopping center.

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• Architects

  Marshall and Kendon Architects

• Location

  Thames Lido, Kings Meadow, Napier Rd, Reading, RG1 8FR, United Kingdom

• Lead Architects

  Marshall and Kendon Architects

• Engineer

  Structural Solutions

• Project Managers

  Arne Ringer - Glassboat

• Contractors

  Charlie Quinn & Marcos dos Santos - Design Workshop Bristol

• Area

  1500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Jon Reid – Arch.Photos

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• Architects

  PES-Architects

• Location

  Mawei New Town, Fuzhou, China

• Lead Architects

  Pekka Salminen (chief designer), Martin Lukasczyk (project architect), Samuel Hsuan-yu Shih (ceramic artist), Lai Linli (project manager)

• Design Team

  Wei Li(project coordinator), Xiaojing Guang(project manager), Yizhou Zhao, Masahide Nakane, Matti Kankkunen, Anna Blomqvist, Clara Juan, Uros Kostic, Antonio Barquinha, Martin Genet, Jian Dou

• Area

  153000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Marc Goodwin, Yong Zhang, Martin Lukasczyk

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• Architects

  Naoyuki Tokuda / tokudaction

• Location

  Japan

• Construction

  YASUGORO INAGAKI Inc.

• Textile

  Emiko Tokuda / tokudaction

• Area

  1048.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Masaki Komatsu

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• Architects

  Studio Lawang

• Location

  Babakan Madang, Indonesia

• Lead Architect

  Patrisius Marvin Dalimartha

• Team

  Pamela Jouwena, Anna Silalahi

• Area

  500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Mario Wibowo

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• Architects

  INUCE·Dirk U. Moench

• Location

  Luoyuan, China

• Architect in Charge

  Dirk U. Moench

• Design Team

  Joshua Cubero, Yuanquan Gao, Shenming Lü, Jason Chen

• Structure & Engineering

  CCBA DI

• Area

  5950.0 m2

• Project Year

  2011

• Photographs

  Shikai, Dengxie Xiang, INUCE

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• Architects

  fyc architects

• Location

  Richmond, Australia

• Area

  163.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Rachael Dere

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• Architects

  Israel Espin

• Location

  Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico

• Area

  55.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Zaickz - Francisco Mosqueda

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• Architects

  Bambutec Design

• Location

  Av. Octávio Gama, 100 - Portal de Paraty, Paraty - RJ, 23970-000, Brazil

• Architects in Charge

  Mario Seixas, João Bina, Patrick Stoffel, José Luiz Mendes Ripper

• Design

  Tomás Lanzarini, Hector Tabet, Mariana Celnik, Monique Roque, João Brum

• Area

  345.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographer

  Juan Dias

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• Architects

  David Cervera Arquitectos

• Location

  San Crisanto, Mexico

• Architect in Charge

  David Cervera

• Interior Design

  David Cabrera

• Area

  380.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  David Cervera

Meis Architects have released new renderings of the FC Cincinnati soccer stadium in Ohio. After FC Cincinnati won their bid to become a Major League Soccer (MLS) team, the design was made to seat 26,500 people at a cost of $200 million. The stadium will be built with a retractable roof canopy and ETFE pillows that can be lit with the soccer club’s blue and orange colors.

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• Architects

  pianca+urano

• Location

  República, São Paulo - SP, 01045-001, Brazil

• Authors

  Guilherme Pianca, Rafael Andrade

• Architect in Charge

  Guilherme Pianca

• Area

  100.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Manuel Sá