Apartment: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Saransh

• Location

  Ahmedabad, India

• Category

  Houses

• Architect in Charge

  Malay Doshi

• Design Team

  Arihant Bajaj, Tejashree Karande

• Area

  67.0 m2

• Project Year

  2019

• Photographs

  Ishita Sitwala, The Fishy Project

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• Architects

  Filipe Fonseca Costa

• Location

  Lisboa, Portugal

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Lead Architect

  Filipe Fonseca Costa

• Area

  240.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  do mal o menos

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• Interiors Designers

  PENY HSIEH INTERIORS

• Location

  New Taipei City, Taiwan

• Category

  Interior Design

• Area

  84.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Kyleyu Photo Stuio

Many of us have already lived, are living, or will live in a shared student house - a good mix of cheap housing and intense socializing with friends and school mates. For a reasonable price, it is possible to have a single private room and share common spaces. In fact, not only university students are living this way nowadays. The concept of co-living is becoming more and more an attractive and effective solution.

Social Housing is a principal element for a more democratic city. These housing structures provide decent dwellings for all citizens in urban areas and connect them to the rest of the city and its services. 

Unfortunately, in many countries, the term "Social Housing" still has a negative connotation. It is often seen as a project that seeks to build the largest number of units with cheap materials, and little-to-no concern for the quality of life of its residents. Often times, it is designed for monetary reasons, as opposed to a project that serves the city and its people. Although this fact is recurrent, there are several examples that portray the opposite, in which architects manifest their political point of view through exceptional projects with innovative solutions that improve the urban experience.

To highlight these projects, we've gathered 45 examples that portray different modes of social housing. The diverse selection begins with small-scale, single-family residences that integrate public subsidy programs to large public enterprises for multifamily units.

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• Architects

  SER-ra

• Location

  Lisboa, Portugal

• Category

  Refurbishment

• Authors

  Gonçalo Moleiro, João Bilbao

• Engineer

  Nuno Reis

• Area

  47.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  emontenegro / architectural photography

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• Architects

  GPT Architectural Design

• Location

  Jinmen Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

• Category

  Residential

• Lead Architects

  Hua Fang

• Design Team

  Nan Chen, Zhe Chen

• Area

  7700.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographer

  Yichen Ding, Courtesy of Shanghai GPT Architectural Design co. LTD.

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• Architects

  gad

• Location

  The Bund 188 Mansion, Hongkou, Shanghai, China

• Category

  Apartments

• Construction Height

  80m

• Design time

  2013

• Area

  57546.9 m2

• Project Year

  2016

Following up on their series of urban block flashcards, Spanish publisher a+t architecture publishers recently launched a new deck of cards featuring architecture that "promote[s] the compact city and the desirable dwelling." Titled 50 Housing Floor Plans, this new version contains examples of recent collective living projects, featuring buildings constructed between 2000 and 20017.

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• Architects

  Very Studio | Che Wang Architects

• Location

  Taichung, Taiwan

• Category

  Interiors Architecture

• Architects in Charge

  Che Wang, Colette Kuo

• Area

  200.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Te-Fan Wang, Studio Millspace

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• Interiors Designers

  Xue Jin Architecture Network

• Location

  1 Shuanggang Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Designer in Charge

  Jin Xue

• Collaborators

  Isabel Escudero

• Area

  71.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Chuan Bai

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• Interiors Designers

  OFGA

• Location

  Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Lead Designer

  Winston Yeo

• Interior Decoration

  Effie Yang

• Area

  75.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Effie Yang

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• Architects

  Praxis d’Architecture

• Location

  Songzhuang, Beijing,China

• Category

  Apartments

• Project Architect

  Di Shaohua

• Design Team

  Di Xiangjie, Liu Xing, Zhang Xiaodong, Feng Shuxian, Feng Jiancheng

• Area

  21500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Zhou Ruogu, Jin Fengzhe

Located outside of Saint-Malo’s train station, this soaring 55-meter beacon building will establish itself as an entrance to the city. The Semaphore is the product of French architects a/LTA + Ateliers Laporte and holds a strong identity and concept in creating a dynamic, engaging environment while blending harmoniously into its surrounding environment.

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The launch of a building in downtown São Paulo - Brazil was the talk of the town due to its surprising apartment sizes of only 10 square meters. This raised the debate about the market trend to produce ever smaller properties and the ability of these properties to meet the needs of its residents. 

There is no doubt that, this type of real estate is related to newest trends of family compositions. It is increasingly common for residences to be occupied by only one person, or at most two. According to data from the SEADE Foundation for 2010, in the State of São Paulo, almost 40% of households have these characteristic, 13% of which is made up of a single resident.