Multi-family housing is alive and well. Today there is greater emphasis in multi-family housing design on expressing individual identity. Many of the projects in this book are inventive in the ways that one’s home within the collective is easily identified.

One of the strongest themes found in this collection of multifamily housing is sustainability, Many architects have embraced design that conserves natural resources, offers alternative fuel sources, and brings living into greater harmony with nature...

Multi-family housing is alive and well. Today there is greater emphasis in multi-family housing design on expressing individual identity. Many of the projects in this book are inventive in the ways that one’s home within the collective is easily identified.

One of the strongest themes found in this collection of multifamily housing is sustainability, Many architects have embraced design that conserves natural resources, offers alternative fuel sources, and brings living into greater harmony with nature.

Consider this volume a pattern book of contemporary multifamily housing solutions to a wide variety of design and construction challenges, to inspire more projects to meet the needs of living together in harmony with style.

Living Together in Harmony with Style

by Michael J. Crosbie

Metro Hollywood Transit Village, Los Angeles, California, USA

Kanner Architects

Contemporaine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Perkins + Will

Orange Grove Lofts, West Hollywood, California, USA

Pugh + Scarpa Architecture

Solaire, New York, New York, USA

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

1212 Euclid, Santa Monica, California, USA

David Forbes Hibbert, Architect

Radio City, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

architectsAlliance

Italian Gardens, San Jose, California, USA

Seidel Holzman

Folsom Bore, San Francisco, California, USA

David Baker + Partners

North Court, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Wolff Lyon Architects

Parent Avenue Lofts, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

Mclntosh Poris Associates

Waterloo Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA

Koning Eizenberg Architecture

Brownstones at Riverfront Park, Denver, Colorado, USA

Humphries Poll Architects

Bergamot Artist Lofts, Santa Monica, California, USA

Pugh + Scarpa Architecture

Esther Short Commons, Vancouver, Washington, USA

William Wilson Architects

Magnolia Row, West Oakland, California, USA

David Baker + Associates

Briar Hills, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Randy Brown Architects

Harold Way, Los Angeles, California, USA

Koning Eizenberg Architecture

Douglas Meadows, Portland, Oregon, USA

Robertson, Merryman, Barnes Architects

Bentley-Massachusetts, Los Angeles, California, USA

Kanner Architects

18 forkville, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

architectsAlliance

Lenzen Square, San Jose, California, USA

David Baker + Partners

Main Street North, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Wolff Lyon Architects

San Pedro Commons, Colma, California, USA

Seidel Holzman

Wentworth Commons, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Harley Ellis Devereaux

Venice Beach Lofts, Venice, California, USA

Steven Ehrlich Architects

Rollins Square, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

CBT Architects

K Lofts, San Diego, California, USA

Jonathan Segal, Architect

Commerce Street Townhomes, Dallas, Texas, USA

Ron Wommack Architect

11th Avenue Townhomes, Escondido, California, USA

Studio E Architects

Box & One Lofts, Portland, Oregon, USA

Fletcher Farr Ayotte and Kevin Cavenaugh

8th and Howard Apartments, San Francisco, California, USA

David Baker + Partners

Rose/Knox Townhouses, Houston, Texas, USA

Donna Kacmar, Christopher Craig, Mary Ann Young

Loyola Village, San Francisco, California, USA

Seidel Holzman

Blake Street Flats, Denver, Colorado, USA

Humphries Poll Architects

Homesafe, San Jose, California, USA

Studio E Architects

Laconia Lofts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Hacin + Associates

Avenue Lofts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Krupnick Studio

Tip Top Lofts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

architectsAIliance

Colorado Court, Santa Monica, California, USA

Pugh Scarpa Kodama

Church Condominiums, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

R. Wendell Phillips and Associates

Fahrenheit, San Diego, California, USA

Studio E Design, Martinez Cutri (Executive Architect)

Index of Architects

Acknowledgments