Shameful really One of the big contributors is our poor quality of housing. You can rate the thermal performance of housing on a star rating of 0-10. The average star rating of Australian homes built before 2003? 1.8 stars…

Cladding made from reclaimed railway sleepers - looks fantastic! By Reed Watts Architects and Allies & Morrison timberdevelopment.uk/roundhouse-w...

Such simple, beautiful social housing. One main material used externally, no set backs, simple form and generousity of external space (just look at that balcony!) 21 apartments in Lyon by Rue Royale Architects and Claire Tournier

Lovely scale of urban infill by West of West, proposed for LA A winning scheme in the Small Lots, Big Impacts competition

I will never get over the architectural quality of Swiss schools This is a 14 classroom school by CURA Architekten

I don’t think people realise quite how inequitable development is globally In the US there is 30x more built up volume (buildings and infrastructure) per person than in Bangladesh www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mass timber office building in Lyon, by BFV Architectes Top notch detailing

London has become a cycling city archive.is/8YEjR

Adaptive reuse of a 1927 post office building in Brest into 93 apartments By Chatillon Architectes www.dezeen.com/2025/05/25/b...

This is quite impressive from one of the UK’s largest house builders They should roll it out across the whole country www.businessgreen.com/news/4413943...

Simple and effective articulation of this apartment building in Qom, Iran, provides visual interest but also creates shade and amenity for residents By Siyagh Studio

Nice piece of urban infill in Bushehr, Iran Apartments with a mix of shade, brick texture and greenery. By Mehdi Baghbani

15 social housing apartments in Paris by MAO Architects Again, a stone facade with timber shutters Building cost = €1.9m

This has got to be one of the best train stations built in the 21st Century? Naples underground central station by EBMT Architects

15 social housing apartments in Paris Concrete frame, with a solid stone facade and timber shutters. Looks wonderful, despite a compact and challenging site. Cost = €2.7m

The detailing of Farshad Mehdizadeh’s Goldstan Residence building in Iran is looking sharp Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look

This is only a render, but it promises to be a beautiful series of homes Brick apartments in Tabriz, Iran, by Saeed Davatgari and Samira Amini

New Parisian housing has some of the most interesting floor plans This is a mix of duplex and single-storey homes by Ignacio Prego Architectures

Design for an adobe museum in Saudi Arabia by Zaha Hadid Architects Quite the departure from their usual work www.dezeen.com/2025/05/21/a...

Lovely piece of urban infill in Paris New apartment building with a loadbearing limestone facade and timber floors, by Minuit Architects

Now *this* is a building renovation! Dorshada Resort, Thailand by ACA Architects (before = left, after = right)

Design for 14 social housing apartments in Paris by Boris Bouchet Architecte The curved courtyard is designed to retain a tree on the site (which would otherwise have been removed) Naturally - single spiral stair and elevator too!

As much of the world demolishes its high-rise social housing (Glasgow, Melbourne, etc) France is renovating theirs. 299 renovated social homes in Bordeaux, by JBA Architectes Cost = €72,000 a unit jba.archi/projet/les-a...

It pains me to see mass timber buildings clad in all glass like this….

This is such an important project, because it shows how social housing doesn’t have to be boring… it can be crafted, fun and beautiful By Monadnock Architects in Hilversum

Walking past this 12 storey office in Malmo, you’d never guess it’s made from timber… until you look inside… www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/175...

The story of Sickla in Stockholm, the world’s largest mass timber district One benefit is speed - they are building 1,000m2 a week with timber! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Design for 20 social housing apartments in Paris. 1st prize in an architectural competition, designed by Plan Comun

Social housing in Venezia, by Gino Valle, 1984 hiddenarchitecture.net/giudecca/

Lovely mid-rise housing, and the kind of thing we could be building everywhere! 6-storey apartments in Tehran by Hamid Hosseini

Elephant sanctuary at Zurich Zoo, with a remarkable timber geodesic roof, by Marcus Schietsch Architekten

Brick walls and timber shutters - a winning combination! Apartments in Tehran by Mahbod Moaven Architect

304 new homes receive planning for Govan Graving Docks, Glasgow Architecture by O’Donnell Brown

Now this is a fucking station!!! Naples underground station, with its remarkable timber arches, by EMBT

Social housing for over 65’s in Mallorca by H Arquitectes Load bearing walls with reclaimed stone aggregates (mined from demolition debris), and CLT floor slabs Super low embodied carbon of 417kg of CO2/m2 and €1,600/m2 build cost (including demolition)

Really interesting social housing in Barcelona by Vivas Arquitectos Homes are separated by a terrace space, creating an interest between public and private afasiaarchzine.com/2025/05/67-a...

Wow! Social housing in the Balearic Islands, Spain. Built using local stone, bricks and timber

How children draw their experience of travelling to school Driving on the left… walking on the right (Via Margrit Stamm)

There’s lots to learn from Iranian mid-rise housing! 6-storey apartments in Isfahan, Iran, by Soo Architects - The right balance of windows + shade - Recessed balconies - Simple, but beautifully detailed

With a warming climate, we need to better use shade and solidity to protect from overheating in apartments Comfort Reverie, by Marina Tabassum in Dhaka, is a great example, using a single material - brick

91 social housing apartments in Barcelona - love the shading! Competition winning design by Hue Studio and Musquera Arquitectura

World’s largest timber structure at the Osaka Expo, designed by Sou Fujimoto That’s a lot of wood - fortunately it can be dismantled and repurposed if needed www.dezeen.com/2025/04/24/t...

Bitcoin causes air pollution!!! Researchers show the 34 biggest bitcoin mines in the US combined use 33% more electricity than Los Angeles This has exposed nearly 2 million Americans to higher levels of air pollution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump bans architects of new US embassies from using the words ‘sustainability’ and ‘climate’ when describing their designs Talk about freedom of speech! www.archpaper.com/2025/04/bure...

Meridiana Apartments, Barcelona, 1965 by MBM Arquitectes Apartments arranged around a series of courtyards to ensure access to light and air on a deep site Apparently the direction of the windows were chosen by the original owners before they moved in www.arquitecturacatalana.cat/en/works/hab...

This kind of housing - mid-rise, timber, recessed balconies - should be the standard that could accomodate millions of people By LP Architektur in Salzburg

More bricks and arches in modern Iranian apartments These have just finished construction in Ahvaz, Iran, designed by Mehrdad Esmaeilian

MVRDV propose adapting a 20th Century church into a public swimming pool in Heerlen Positive adaptive reuse with a strong social function www.designboom.com/architecture...

If only more apartments looked like this! Designed for Esfahan, Iran, by Sina Eqestadi

I like this a lot! Brick apartments with plenty of shade, currently under construction in Ahvaz, Iran. Designed by Mehrdad Esmailian