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As cities around the world try to cope with housing and land shortages, the need for apartment buildings has never been greater.
It's a reality architects are keenly aware of, with many having proposed radical, beautiful new models for apartment living, including towers that
change shape
,absorb carbon
, andbreak up when you do
.
However, while the rise in designer apartments has been a boon for top-earners in search of inventive new living quarters, affordable options with the same quality and creativity remain scarce.
As cities around the world try to cope with housing and land shortages, the need for apartment buildings has never been greater.
In "Building Community," Webb highlights 30 apartments, designed by internationally renowned firms like Gehry Architects, BIG and OMA, that truly defy convention.
From a sustainable urban three house in Turin, Italy to an interlocking megastructure in Singapore, these apartments "suggest models for how you can provide decent housing for people of every income level, from the very poor to the very rich, and in between."
"They are beacons of sanity and imagination that show how much better we could live, if only architects were liberated to do their own thing," Webb says.
"The basics of good design haven't changed: space, light, privacy, good sound insulation so you're not listening to your neighbors and traffic outside. These are the qualities that good architects can bring, but they can only do it if someone's going to commission them."
Check out the gallery above for some of the world's most innovative apartment buildings.
(CNN)
