Residential Architecture: The Latest Architecture and News

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Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield have been announced as the “preferred bidder” for a pair of residential towers the East London district of Shoreditch. As reported on BDOnline, the £25 million project at Colville Estate will rise up to 14 and 20 stories high to replace the existing 1950‘s low-rise buildings. This will be the second and last phase of the largest council-backed housing development in London and the first UK mass housing project for Chipperfield.

More on Colville Estate after the break.

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In an effort to address housing concerns throughout the city, New York City held the adAPT NYC Competition in search for a micro-unit apartment building that would be developed into a new housing model for the "small household population". The winner and five finalists were announced earlier this week, revealing a sharp focus on consolidating various living areas to save space and resolving to give multi-functionality where ever possible. There is also an emphasis on community in each of the proposals, making up for the small units with more public amenities within the building. Join us after the break to take a closer look at the projects.

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• Architects

  Bjarke Ingels Group

• Location

  COCONUT GROVE, MIAMI, FL, USA

• Architect in Charge

  Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen

• Design Team

  Tiago Barros, Jitendra Jain, Brian Foster, Ed Yung, Terrence Chew, Ji-Young Joon, Kasper Hansen, Chris Malcolm, Alana Goldweit, Martin Voelkle, Greg Knobloch, Ho Kyung Lee, Mina Rafiee, Cat Huang, Maureen McGee, Chris Falla, Valerie Lechene

• Project Leaders

  Leon Rost, Ziad Shehab

• Area

  58,900 m2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Courtesy of BIG

• Architects

  Bjarke Ingels Group

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the winner of adAPT NYC - a city-sponsored competition that challenged developer-led teams to design an innovative micro-apartment that responds to 21st century housing problems. With an all time high of 8.4 million people, and an expected million more by 2030, New York City’s shortfall of affordable one and two person apartments is continuing to grow at a staggering rate. In an effort to solve this imbalance, the winner of adAPT NYC will build an experimental project on a piece of city-owned land in Kips Bay, Manhattan, that has been alleviated from the 1987 density restriction that requires all new apartments to be greater than 400 square feet.

“The growth rate for one- and two-person households greatly exceeds that of households with three or more people, and addressing that housing challenge requires us to think creatively and beyond our current regulations,” said Bloomberg.

So, who won adAPT NYC? Find out after the break!

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Following an international competition, Richard Meier & Partners Architects has been selected to design a new mixed-use building in Hamburg Germany. Under the Richard Meier & Partners plan – one of three competing proposals – the site will become a remarkable place to work, live and relax in the HafenCity district.

• Architects

  Richard Meier & Partners

• Location

  Hamburg, Germany

• Managing Partner

  Richard Meier

• Design Partner

  Bernhard Karpf

• Design Team

  Anne Strüwing, Parsa Khalili

• Collaborators

  Bori Kang, Amalia Rusconi-Clerici, Stephen Sze, Kevin Browning

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners

• Architects

  Richard Meier & Partners

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• Architects

  BIG

• Location

  Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

• Partners in Charge

  Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen


• Project Leader

  Daniel Kidd


• Contributors

  Chris Falla, Suemin Jeon, Andreia Teixeira, Jenny Shen, Marcella Martinez, Michael Zhang

• Area

  80,000 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of BIG

• Architects

  Bjarke Ingels Group

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