Tag: social housing
The Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) has acknowledged the Australian Government’s proposed $2 billion in funding to drive affordable housing but expressed dismay at a lack of ambitious measures for social housing and climate change Announced last night by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, the Federal Budget outlines the government’s economic plan for Australia. AIA national president […]
Victoria will deliver a $5.3 billion Big Housing Build package to construct more than 12,000 new social housing homes throughout metro and regional Victoria over the next four years, supercharging Victoria’s economic recovery through the pandemic and beyond. This package will boost Victoria’s social housing supply by 10 per cent in just four years – […]
The 2019 RIBA Stirling Prize for Britain’s building of the year has been awarded to a council housing project for the first time in the award’s 20+ year history. Hailed a “modest masterpiece” by the 2019 Stirling Prize jury, Goldsmith Street is located in Norfolk in the country’s east and was designed by Mikhail Riches Architects with Cathy […]
Parisian practice Barrault Pressacco has recently completed a social housing project built using massive stone and hemp concrete. The building is located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, where vernacular architecture coexists alongside Hausmannian renovations from the late 19th century. The architects took an environmental approach to the design while echoing the Hausmannian building tradition […]
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