Multifamily Housing

Seattle's Sunset Electric Apartments. Photo: Joe Wolf/Creative Commons
Includes linkage fee to further goal of constructing 6,000 new affordable units.

Whole Foods at Oahu's Ward Village, image courtesy Ward Village by Howard Hughes Corporation
Several high-rise projects include street-level Whole Foods Markets.

The scheme envisions a single container being subdivided into several studio flats, while three-bedroom family residences could be crafted out of three containers. Renderings courtesy CRG Architects
The firm says approximately 2,500 containers would be needed to complete the design, which aims t...
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The explosive demand for tech office space in and around metropolitan areas has led to creative redevelopment opportunities for Building Teams. The Playa Jefferson complex in Playa Vista, Calif., remade a series of nondescript, low-rise office buildings into state-of-the-art tech space for mature and startup companies. Photo: Benny Chan Fotoworks, courtesy Gensler
In the race for highly coveted tech companies and startups, cities, institutions, and developers...
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The swimming pool will suspend approximately 115 feet above ground. Renderings courtesy Ballymore Group
Residents and visitors will be able to swim 10 stories above ground, and see views of London.
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To meet the code requirements of the elevator enclosure and ensure that the ocean views were available, SAFTI FIRST supplied SuperLite II-XL 120 with GPX Curtain Wall Framing for the 2-hour segmented wall starting from the lobby. Renderings courtesy of Metrostudio.com.
The 60-story, 132-residence luxury Porsche Design Tower designed by Sieger Suarez Architects prom...
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1188 & 1198 Junipero Serra Blvd., designed by Kwan Henmi
The first 1,000 residential units will kickoff a decade-long plan to add 5,6779 new housing units...

ZINC Apartments, West Cambridge, Mass., just outside Boston. The owner, Wood Partners, will start accepting tenants in September. The Building Team: Symmes Maini & McKee Associates (architect), J Derenzo (site work), EM Duggan (MEP), McPhee (electrical contractor), JK Glass (curtain wall/glass), Canatal (steel), Sanford (wall panels), and Lend Lease (GC). Rendering: Wood Partners and Monogram Residential Trust
For the last three years, rental apartments have occupied the hot corner in residential construct...
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Renderings courtesy Reza Kabul Architects
The 1996 Iconic Tower will be a tribute to the country’s cricket team, which won the World Cup in...
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Photo: Dallas's Centerpoint Energy Plaza is one of the façade retrofits listed on the site. Ken Lund/Creative Commons
The site allows users to submit information about new projects, or supplement information on thos...
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A 3,251-sf plaza at the tower’s base will provide a public gathering spot. Renderings courtesy Studio Libeskind
Are pyramids making a comeback? The city of Paris recently approved a triangle-shaped building th...
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Photo: Cjp24 via Wikimedia Commons
Despite the adverse weather conditions that curtailed design and construction activity in the fir...
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Renderings courtesy Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
The 62-story, 157-unit luxury condo tower widens at the 40th floor, resulting in a gently flared...
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The Miami Herald reports on several new multifamily projects, including the Paramount Miami Worldcenter (pictured), whose homes include maid’s rooms, larger terraces, boutique-size closets, and guest suites. Rendering courtesy Paramount Miami Worldcenter
The Miami Herald reports on several new multifamily projects, including the Paramount Mi...
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Photo: Bainbridge Bethesda, Creative Commons
Predictions that multifamily housing construction would taper off in 2015 may have underestimated...
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Photo: Stevens Community Apartments in Minneapolis. Michael Hicks, Wikimedia Commons.
The city cut the number of spots required for large developments by half. It also will accept pla...
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Photo: Berkeley City Hall. Almonroth, Wikimedia Commons.
Apartment building balconies will be subject to inspections every three years under new regulatio...
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The team came up with the design using parametric modeling to optimize passive heating and cooling. Soon after, a director noticed the form's similarity with a certain pop star in a music video. Renderings courtesy Elenberg Fraser
The bootylicious tower is composed of 660 apartments and a 160-room hotel at the west end of Melb...
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Court cites affordable housing crisis of ‘epic proportions.’

Renderings courtesy Bjarke Ingels Group
Several levels in the center of the 185-meter tower are shifted outward to allow for terraces wit...
read moreA bicyclist sits in traffic near a housing construction project in San Francisco. Photo: Reuters/Robert Galbraith
The volatile U.S. multifamily housing market has returned to pre-recession investment levels, dri...
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One World Trade Center was named the winner of the Best Tall Buildings category for the Americas. Image: SOM/CTBUH
One World Trade Center and Abu Dhabi's Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid Tower are among the four towers n...
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Renderings courtesy MAD Architects
The “hillside village” edifice will be covered in drought-tolerant vines and succulents.

Renderings courtesy Handel Architects
To achieve Passive House standards, Cornell Tech Residential will incorporate a number of sustain...
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Plans include a mix of market-rate and social housing, a student hotel, urban agriculture, a bus station, e-car hub, and other amenities. Renderings courtesy Michael Green Architecture
“Just as Gustave Eiffel shattered our conception of what was possible a century and a half ago, t...
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Guerdon Modular Buildings is taking over the Eviva Downtown multifamily project. Rendering courtesy Guerdon Modular Buildings.
Guerdon Modular Buildings will provide modules for 118 apartments.

Photo: KCumming via Wikimedia Commons
Owners of apartment buildings and cooperatives may be eligible for loans with reduced interest ra...
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The new handbook demonstrates methodologies using real data from New York City.

Each year, the Census Bureau revises its time series of previously released estimates going back to the 2010 Census. Photo: David Sim/Flickr.
California and Texas each have three of the one-million-plus cities.

Condos at Trevisio at Waterway Square will start at $650,000 with one-, two-, and three-bedroom floorplans available between 1,247 and more than 3,500 sf. All renderings courtesy Bogza
Treviso at Waterway Square will offer a dynamic downtown setting with numerous live/work/play opt...
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