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Circle 33 Housing Group and the Architecture Foundation have launched a student competition to promote innovation in housing.

'Accomodating Change' aims to attract students of architecture to the field of affordable housing design. It is open to both undergraduates and postgraduates. A prize fund of £8,000 will be allocated by the jury.
Organisers hope the competition will encourage better housing design and 'the development of new housing typologies and processes'.
'The house and its social corollary - housing - continues to be one of the most fascinating, complex and challenging areas of architectural study,’ said a spokeswoman for the foundation. ‘What then should the homes of tomorrow look like? Or perhaps more importantly - how will they work, how will they accommodate changing lifestyles, age, mobility, aspirations and technologies?'

AJ from The Architects’ Journal. Architecture news and information. Companies, buildings, design, products, jobs Skyscrapers likely to be cut down to size after NYC attacks




Changes to US building codes after the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre could make some future skyscraper projects uneconomic, according to one of the world's leading forensic engineering specialists.