Due to a decline in sense of local community in Ichikawamisato, architect Jorge Almazán and his students have designed a planted terrace next to a barbershop building, where customers and by-passers can sit and chat.

Chicago firm Skender has launched the prototype of a mobile ‘factory’ that could assemble apartments on-site.

Urban regeneration company Propertuity is single-handedly transforming Johannesburg’s precinct Maboneng into a hipster walhalla. One of their recent projects, designed by LOT-EK, is a residential unit composed out of 140 upcycled shipping containers.

Tech company ICON in collaboration with developmental non-profit New Story are on their way to provide affordable 3D-printed dwellings in El Salvador.

With Backyard, Airbnb’s latest endeavor, the company is venturing further into the housing market.

StudioMDA has set up two art galleries in Chelsea, New York which fill in overlooked space under the High Line park.

Ecotone, the latest project designed by Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture intends to be Europe’s largest wooden construction.

LA architecture office Gensler has proposed a garage of the future which transforms underground and overground parking spaces into a housing complex.