3 new affordable housing projects for October 2024
As affordable housing continues to grow, more projects are looking to diversify their footprint by adding mixed-use components, community areas, and more.
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As affordable housing continues to grow, more projects are looking to diversify their footprint by adding mixed-use components, community areas, and more.
Demolished in 1989, The Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory left a five-acre hole in West Oakland, Calif. After sitting vacant for nearly three decades, the site will soon become utilized again in the form of 316 affordable housing units.
Crystal Pacific Window & Door Systems, the West Coast production affiliate of national manufacturer Crystal Window & Door Systems, recently supplied over 400 energy efficient vinyl windows for a new affordable housing community in San Diego, Calif.
San Diego-based nonprofit affordable housing developer Community HousingWorks (CHW) celebrates the opening of Puesta del Sol Apartments, a new development with 59 apartments for adults 55 years and older.
Milwaukee-based health center; treehouse resort in Oregon; Chicago's newest data center; cutting-edge research facility at Virginia Tech; Maine call center.
Justice center in San Leandro earns LEED Gold; CHPS-certified elementary in Panorama City, Calif., school makes the most of small spaces; IKEA plugs Colorado city into solar energy; Innovative classrooms help California high school save energy; Dinosaur exhibit ready to open in Los Angeles; Yankee-style batting range marries history with innovation; Old seaplane hangar in Seattle now functions as an athletic club
Outdated Phoenix mini-mall renovated, reopened as an upscale bistro; Massachusetts office complex uses BIM, earns LEED Gold; Ontario town hall marries tradition with modernity; Lighting design illuminates educators’ HQ; World’s highest hotel opens as the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong; Minneapolis public works facility earns LEED Platinum; Fire-ravaged Florida church rises from the ashes in just one year
Raphael Viñoly’s serpentine-shaped building in San Francisco; Winchester gun factory now PepsiCo lab; Bronx railyard becomes shared education campus.
Red Bull Canada’s ultra-mod HQ; country’s first freestanding LEED parking garage; NYC’s expanded Museum of the Moving Image; and a LEED Platinum park pavilion in southern Illinois.
Historic McKim Mead White facility restored for Columbia University; translational research facility added to Texas Medical Center in Houston; University of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena opens.
A collection of recently completed buildings that celebrate the efforts of the entire Building Team. Projects include a former Richardson Romanesque hotel in Ohio that now houses books, not beds; a Chicago high-rise that mixes condos with classrooms; and a justice center on the Fall River (Mass.) harbor that serves up daylight.
Library for modern enthusiasts; historic hotel converted to residential lofts; lemur research facilities open at Duke University; Clif Bar’s new LEED Platinum headquarters, and more.