Named for life's marathon-like challenges, the playful 26 Point 2 apartment complex in Long Beach, California, provides residents with communal spaces and on-site services.
A diverse group of North American projects showcases architects breaking through budgetary, spatial, and legal barriers to provide innovative housing solutions.
Designed to passive-house principles, an airy multi-story addition to a Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, rowhouse adds 30 percent more area to the building while requiring only 12 percent additional energy consumption.
Resilient and super-insulated, this four-bedroom seasonal retreat is clad in contrasting weathering steel and acetylated wood, echoing the geological character of the nearby Teton Range.