In another blow to the already beleaguered home buyer’s market, Zillow recently released a revised home price forecast predicting that U.S. home prices would rise approximately 14.9 percent between ...

The Silver Lake structure is SuperLA’s first example of a repeatable model the company says can build homes faster and cheaper than industry standard. Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of ...

A new apartment building called The Stack is about to open in the Inwood section of Manhattan. By design, it looks like a collection of staggered Lego blocks. On the inside, it’s like any other modern ...

Rotterdam-based architecture firm AEMSEN has recently unveiled BARBIZON, a design proposal for sustainable apartments built from prefabricated, cross-laminated timber modules. Created with the vision ...

The southwest German town of Wertheim is known for its medieval town center, proximity to the Tauber River, and the 12th century Wertheim Castle. Now, it is the location for something much more modern ...

Developer Unico Properties’ answer to affordable housing sits unobtrusively in a quiet plaza in increasingly unaffordable downtown Seattle. The prototypes have been on display since last fall: two ...

For the first time, an Atlanta apartment building will be constructed in a factory far away, shipped to the city and assembled in an effort to build more affordable housing by cutting down on ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. The first surprise in seeing this building is how small it is, particularly as it is ...

Broadway Stack is a 28-unit moderate-income apartment complex built with 56 prefabricated modules. The modules were assembled off-site in a former subway car factory and then shipped to Inwood, where ...

Imagine a future in which cities are no longer grown from the ground up with poured concrete. Factories spit out bathrooms, kitchens, and whole apartment floors to be stacked and sealed into dazzling ...

Local developer’s modular pads are not the only option for such a building, but they’re in the running Adam L Brinklow When local micro-developer Patrick Kennedy parked one of his MicroPADs in front ...

Seattle’s first prefabricated, modular apartment complex won an important approval this week, and the project’s backers say its first tenants could start moving in as soon as next May. That’s just ...