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55 votes
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Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled
21 votes -
Architect resigns in protest over UCSB mega-dorm
21 votes -
Tour of 'The One', a $500m mansion in Bel-Air
14 votes -
Google submits plans to build 7,000 homes in North Bayshore, the largest project in city's history
11 votes -
Ten churches around the world that have been repurposed in interesting and creative ways
42 votes -
So you want to turn an office building into a home?
41 votes -
Desire paths: The illicit trails that defy the urban planners
23 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is building a top-secret compound in Hawai'i
32 votes -
The old new way to provide cheap housing
18 votes -
The International Building Code is changing to recommend gender neutral bathrooms
28 votes -
How AI art reduces the world to stereotypes
33 votes -
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends – and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board
25 votes -
What should America do with its empty church buildings?
13 votes -
The most divisive trend in water-closet architecture has reached Boston: the open-concept bathroom
19 votes -
How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
16 votes -
Books about social housing & architecture
I read the book 'Municipal Dreams' a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the history of social housing presented in it. I picked up 'Living in Cities' by Ralph Tubbs which is like a modernist new...
I read the book 'Municipal Dreams' a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the history of social housing presented in it. I picked up 'Living in Cities' by Ralph Tubbs which is like a modernist new town pamphlet style book about the futures of cities & towns. I also have 'Post-Modern Buildings in Britain' which is quite nice for a flip through and some history of these buildings.
I'd definitely reccomend Municipal Dreams for anyone even slightly intrested in UK social housing (and more) and I think the way it is presented is really nice.
I was wondering if anyone knew any particularly good books about architecture (specifically about social housing's architecture), I realise this is quite hard as little has been recorded around some of this stuff.
Further any books surrounding modernist ideals that lead to this would be nice to discuss as well as I've not seen much in the way of primary sources here.
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles
16 votes -
Has UML died without anyone noticing?
9 votes -
Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles
28 votes -
Is the Las Vegas sphere worth it?
14 votes -
Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
18 votes -
Why is everything so ugly? The mid in fake midcentury modern
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The future of the office is cozy
20 votes -
I thought this rotating house was impossible
36 votes -
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
13 votes -
Why can’t we have decent toilet stalls?
22 votes -
San Francisco considers lifting the Ferry Building by seven feet to save it from the sea
15 votes -
Brutalist buildings aren’t unlovable. You’re looking at them wrong.
13 votes -
We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
18 votes -
New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things
10 votes -
So you want to turn an office building into a home?
10 votes -
Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs
19 votes -
The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century
44 votes -
Process of making beautiful Korean-style house
18 votes -
Doomsday prep for the super-rich
21 votes -
A Welsh town will install anti-sex toilets that could spray users with water
12 votes -
A visit to Peterborough cathedral
14 votes -
Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood
8 votes -
Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
2 votes -
When is the revolution in architecture coming?
5 votes -
Wood construction and the risk of fire
14 votes -
British pubs keep getting demolished and rebuilt
17 votes -
SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope?
14 votes -
The circus of celebrity house tours
10 votes -
Why India doesn’t build skyscrapers
9 votes -
Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House
6 votes -
Shutters: What you need to know to avoid mistakes (2017)
7 votes -
Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
12 votes -
Building a cathedral without science or mathematics: The engineering method explained
4 votes