Living Air-Right: Redefining Affordable Housing in NYC
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you a project by New York City based architects Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee. Adding cabins to unused roof tops like CABIN SPACEY or designing houses on misshaped “leftover” lots […]
Manhattan High-Rise Meets European Courtyard in BIG’s Courtscraper
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you the recently completed “Courtscraper” by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. VIΛ 57 West, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group for the Durst Organization, introduces a new typology to New York City: the […]
Presenting the Redevelopment New Lab, which Brings Startups to a Former Shipbuilding Facility
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you the recently completed redevelopment project New Lab by Macro Sea. We met David Belt, the Executive Director and Founder of Macro Sea and Nicko Elliott, the Design Director of the company in the […]
How to Develop a Used Car Lot into a Trending Food Court: The Zipper by Guerrilla Development
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you the project The Zipper by Portland based Guerrilla Development. We interviewed Kevin Cavenaugh, architect developer and founder of the real estate development company Guerrilla Development, last year. In the interview […]
Presenting Berlin’s Biggest Joint Building Venture Project by Zanderroth Architekten
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you the joint building venture project li01 by Berlin based zanderroth architekten. We introduced zanderroth architekten to you in this article presenting five successful architects as developer firms. Since they were founded […]
ASH NYC Re-Developed Historic Building, 32 Custom House, as Their Own Clients
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you the recently completed design project 32 Custom House by ASH NYC. ASH NYC is a company that blends the world of interior design with property development. In addition to being […]
How the Architects at ‘Deadline’ Became Their Own Clients to Design Their First Building
Welcome to our projects series where we present benchmarks of urban living – self developed by architects and creative city makers. This week we want to present you the project Slender – Bender by Berlin based Deadline. Slender – Bender is the first building of Deadline’s architects Matthew Griffin and Britta Jürgens. In embarking on this project […]
Sustainable Prefab House Made of Shipping Containers
The WFH House concept is a patented modular building system, based on a design principle, using 40 feet high standard modules as structural system. The structure can be configured to meet many different purposes like multi storey, townhouses, cluster houses or individual villas. The prefab house can be exported to any place in the world […]
Hippest Dorm in Berlin: Student Life in Shipping Containers
A village built out of shipping containers is the hottest new student accommodation idea in Berlin. Students seem to love it and the demand is high. The investor is saying: “30% cheaper, 50% faster and 100% cooler.” Take a look at the project yourself! The big idea: Affordable Student housing in shipping containers When developer […]
