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Enter the SkyCity Challenge 19. Open call for every part in the world.
After a successful completion of our first challenge SkyCity again, is pleased to invite architects, designers, artists, engineers to take part in the SkyCity Challenge 19, THE FUTURE OF HOUSING. The current ways of building are affecting the environment we are living in, they are limited and outdated. We believe with the modern technology available, we are able to create far more sophisticated homes that could revolutionize the future of housing.
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We want you to design a home that can be dismantled after a time period and used again as if it were just simple prefab modular pieces. A home made
SO-IL has released details of their Las Americas social housing project in León, one of Mexico’s fastest-growing cities. Seeking to establish a solution to the nation’s housing crisis, SO-IL collaborated with the Instituto Municipal de Vivienda de León (IMUVI) in the development of the prototype development.
Manufacturers: Benedictis Engenharia, Bricolagem Brasil, Grau Engenharia, Hunter Douglas, Marvelar, +5Pau-Pau Pisos e Móveis de Madeira, Poliform, Snaldi, Studio Serradura, The Size-5
The Studio Gang-designed 11 Hoyt has topped out in Brooklyn to its full height of 620 feet. Offering 481 luxury residential condominiums, with interiors by Michaelis Boyd Associates, 11 Hoyt features a scalloped façade comprised of exquisitely crafted, shimmering cast concrete and glass, animated by bays that appear to peel away from the building and change as sunlight moves across them throughout the day.
Manufacturers: Art des caves, Artzzi, Casa Di Irena, Deca, Gabbeh, +13Lovato Marcenaria, Luminar, Marcenaria Dalben, Maximmus Marmoraria, Power Soll, Premiar, Quattro Vetro, Rewood, Sob Medida persianas, São Luiz Vidraçaria, Tristão Serralheria, Vertz Iluminação, Zanchet Madeiras-13
Stefano Boeri Architetti has designed a new offset multi-family housing complex in Albania. In conjunction with the opening of a new studio in Tirana, Boeri announced the start of construction on the new housing complex near the Albanian Presidential Palace. Designed as overlapped cubes, the project occupies a narrow lot on an important boulevard. The project's facade opens onto a large public space within the urban fabric of Tirana to put the housing complex in direct connection with the city.