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Great Solutions

41 Great Solutions for architects, engineers, and contractors

AI ChatBots, ambient computing, floating MRIs, low-carbon cement, sunshine on demand, next-generation top-down construction. These and 35 other innovations make up our 2024 Great Solutions Report, which highlights fresh ideas and innovations from leading architecture, engineering, and construction firms.


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As cities grow ever more crowded, multifamily housing construction is more necessary than ever. Finding ways to compress housing into smaller spaces while still creating true homes calls for a complex blend of innovative design and engineering.

 

Multifamily Housing | Oct 16, 2015

Textile factory turned multifamily has train tracks running through it

The Counting House Lofts is a 200-year-old building that still has its train tracks, exterior train bay doors, and a watch house tower.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 15, 2015

Montreal apartment is world’s largest residential cross-laminated timber project

 Its 434 condo, townhouse, and rental units in three eight-story buildings are made from sustainably harvested wood turned into panels by Canadian company Nordic Wood Structures together with the Cree Nation in Chibougamau.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 15, 2015

Apartment takes progressive turn in architecturally traditional D.C.

The new Lyric 440K Apartments is a 14-story structure housing 234 one- and two-bedroom units in the heart of D.C.'s up-and-coming Mount Vernon Triangle

Multifamily Housing | Oct 12, 2015

Freddie Mac: Multifamily demand should outpace supply through 2016

Vacancy rates and rent growth are “converging” in most markets.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 7, 2015

BIG designs lush, terraced mixed-use building in Sweden

Cascading glass and wooden cubes create a form similar to Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway rock formation.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 6, 2015

Multifamily completions in buildings with 50 or more units continues to climb

The Census Bureau estimates that 255,600 multifamily housing units were completed in 2014 in buildings with at least five or more units, representing a 37.3% increase over the previous year and the highest total in those multi-unit structures since 2009.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 2, 2015

Utilities should do more to give building owners energy use information

Owners of multi-tenant buildings lack basic information.

Multifamily Housing | Oct 1, 2015

Wiel Arets unveils twin, 558-foot mixed-use towers in Bahrain’s capital

The development, Bahrain Bay Tower, will consist of two residential towers connected “by a plinth of retail, office, parking, and public park space.”

Multifamily Housing | Sep 29, 2015

The developer that planned a mosque near Ground Zero now proposes a five-star condo tower instead

Sharif El-Gamal of Soho Properties is looking to cash in while lower Manhattan’s real estate market stays hot.

Multifamily Housing | Sep 28, 2015

Vo Trong Nghia’s 'diamond lotus' will feature sky garden pathways linking high-rises

The 22-story housing complex in Ho Chi Minh City will have façades covered with plants and a rooftop garden that connects the structures.

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