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Multifamily Housing
As cities grow ever more crowded, multifamily housing construction is more necessary than ever. Finding ways to compress housing into smaller spaces while still creating true homes calls for a complex blend of innovative design and engineering.
PCBC attendees in San Diego got an earful from experts about the strength of the apartment and condo market.
July 14, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
A slight majority of states (26, plus the District of Columbia) saw rental increases over the first six months of 2017, with the largest average percent changes coming in South Carolina (7.3%), Maine (7.3%), Vermont (7.2%), and Rhode Island (7.0%). Source: Abodo
July 12, 2017 | Abodo
The most notable rental increases are in growing markets in the South and Southwest: New Orleans,...
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The Maxwell in Arlington, Va. Photo: Sam Kittner
July 12, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Zen meditation gardens, bocce courts, saltwater pools, and free drinks highlight the niceties at...
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Rendering courtesy Visualarch
July 07, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The mixed-use tower will rise 185 meters and be located in Melbourne's Central Business District....
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June 28, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Based on a survey from the National Apartment Association, the most popular amenities are the one...
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Photo: Natalie Oxford, WIkimedia Commons
June 22, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
These blocks will undergo further testing to determine if they are safe.
What amenities are you specifying in your apartment/condo projects? Take the survey (3-4 minutes).
June 22, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor, BD+C and Multifamily Design + Construction
The Baltic, an apartment building in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn, N.Y., is Common's first hybrid, featuring both coliving and individual rentals. Image: Common
June 20, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
One provider, Common, emphasizes community in its buildings.
535 Carlton, an 18-story, 298-unit building in the Pacific Park section of Brooklyn, N.Y., will be that neighborhood's first 100% affordable housing building. Greenland Forest City Partners is the developer. The latest report from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies states that affordable for-sale and rental housing remains in short supply in many U.S. markets. Image: Office of the Mayor/Max Touhy
June 16, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
The Joint Center for Housing Studies’ latest report expects minorities and millennials to account...
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A renovated bathroom in one of the dozen apartments in Naomi's Way in New Brunswick, N.J., a permanent housing facility for at-risk families. Image: American Standard Brands
June 07, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
American Standard and Philips Lighting donate products and manpower.
Rendering courtesy CTA Architects
June 07, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The affordable housing complex was hit hard during Hurricane Sandy, leaving residents without ele...
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David Baker at his firm’s most recent apartment project, Potrero 1010. Photo: Anne Hamersky Media
June 07, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
For 35 years, architect David Baker has been a spirited voice for affordable housing, in San Fran...
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Image courtesy of PortLiving.
June 06, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The wood, concrete, and glass building will rise approximately 233 feet when finished.
May 25, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The building will be within walking distance to the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters.
Rendering courtesy of MIR.
May 22, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The buildings are on an elevated platform and the surrounding walkways are suspended so as not to...
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One Ala Moana, in Honolulu, was originally designed to be constructed above the parking garage, but the developer went bankrupt in the recession. When the project was brought back to life, Solomon Cordwell Buenz (architect) and Magnusson Klemencic Associates (SE) came up with a new scheme that added valuable space to the tower. Photo: Mariko Reed/SCB.
May 19, 2017 | Mike Plotnick, Contributing Editor
How designers figured out a way to nestle an 18-story condo tower on top of an existing parking s...
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Rendering courtesy C.F. Møller
May 17, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
C.F. Møller’s design was selected as the winner of a competition organized by Riksbyggen in Väste...
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Rendering courtesy of Hines/McCaffery ©Smilodon CG
May 17, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The mixed-use project will provide new apartments, condos, a senior living facility, and retail s...
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Rendering courtesy Solomon Cordwell Buenz
May 15, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The glass tower is being built at 1326 S. Michigan Avenue.
May 10, 2017 | ABODO
Median one-bedroom rent rose to $1,012 in April, the highest it has been since January.
All photos: David Madison Photography
May 10, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Novus Residences’ revolutionary e-lofts concept offers tenants a tempting trio of options—‘live,’...
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Ascent Apartments achieved Silver certification in California’s Build It Green program, thanks to such features as LED lighting, Energy Star appliances, garage ventilation fans, water-efficient plumbing fixtures, low-VOC paints, and water-saving native vegetation and landscape irrigation. All photos: Stephen Schafer | Schaf Photo
May 03, 2017 | Pat Curry, Contributing Editor
An award-winning rental complex takes its design cues from its historic location in Silicon Valle...
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Amenities like the hotel quality lobby and billiards room distinguish the College & Crown, New Haven, Conn., developed by Centerplan with interiors by Carlin & Company. Photo courtesy Centerplan
May 02, 2017 | C.C. Sullivan, Contributing Editor
This AIA CES course features seven novel approaches developers and Building Teams are taking to r...
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Package center at The Frasier, Arlington, Va., designed by KTGY Architecture, comes with its own trashcan plus tabletop. Photo: courtesy KTGY Architecture
April 26, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Package delivery centers provide order and security for the mountains of parcels piling up at apa...
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Photos: Jorge Gera/Luxury Living Chicago (above); Property Markets Group (below)
April 26, 2017 | Robert Cassidy, Executive Editor
Chicago’s newest multifamily development features an iconic CTA car on its amenity deck.
The project team for VIA 57 West: The Durst Organization (owner/developer); BIG and SLCE Architects; Thornton Tomasetti (SE); Dagher Engineering (MEP engineer); and Hunter Roberts Construction Group (GC). Photos: courtesy AIA
April 18, 2017 | BD+C Staff
Bjarke Ingels’ VIA 57 West in New York is among the winners.
April 18, 2017 | AIA + BD+C Staff
2017 marks the 17th year the AIA has rewarded projects and architects with the Housing Awards....
Rendering courtesy of Architects of Invention.
April 18, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
Garden Hill will provide an ‘oasis-like residence’ for Birmingham’s growing, multicultural studen...
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Rendering courtesy of Haseef Rafiei.
April 17, 2017 | David Malone, Associate Editor
The building is designed to print and dispense its own dwellings in vending machine-obsessed Toky...
Photo: Pixabay
April 10, 2017 | John Caulfield, Senior Editor
A total of 343,582 apartment units will come onto the market in 2017, 55.7% of which in the first...
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