• Tregunnel Hill

    Seamless town extension with affordable housing
    In the Village of Newquay a new urban neighborhood has been built with local materials and workers, trained in an apprenticeship program. Nearly 90 percent of the new residents have moved in from the immediate area, a remarkable feat in a popular resort setting. Twenty-eight percent of the units...Read more

  • Serenbe

    In the Chattahoochee Hills of northwestern Georgia, a neighborhood was built to protect the rural land outside of Atlanta. This neighborhood would later become known as Serenbe, a blend of “serene” and “be.” Serenbe founders, Steve Nygren and Maire Lupo Nygren, constructed Serenbe with the vision...Read more

  • 2018 Charter Awards

    These are the 2018 Charter Award-winning projectsRead more
  • Framework for Empowerment Buenos Aires ground level

    A Framework for Empowerment

    Design enables social transformation
    This plan proposes the revitalization of Villa 31, an 80-year-old squatter-built shantytown in Buenos Aires, for its long-time residents—using bottom-up and top-down implementation concepts. A Framework for Empowerment builds on the local, low-tech recycling industry—13.6 percent of adults in Villa...Read more