Apartment Building Architecture: Contemporary Solutions

Vertical elegance: exploring the cutting-edge world of today's apartment building design, with unique spatial ideas, innovative room concepts for inspiring living spaces.

Today, multi-family buildings have become symbols of modern living that redefine both social cohesion and urban space. Their high resident density, low resource and space requirements, as well as communally used areas, make them also the most sustainable approach for new forms of residential spaces. With a variety of heights and façade designs, multi-storey buildings are shaping the appearance of cities and suburbs, turning them into veritable stages for these multifaceted architectural showpieces.

This volume presents projects that seamlessly combine innovation, aesthetics, sustainability and quality of life. Each featured building, ranging from social housing to luxury serviced apartments, highlights flexibility and individuality while telling its own unique story. Together, they offer inspiring visions for a vibrant and sustainable urban future, achieved through the interplay of intelligent floor plans, well-conceived space concepts and convincing design solutions.

About the Author:

The core topic for Chris van Uffelen is the transfer of knowledge about design in all its manifestations. For more than twenty years the Dutch-German art historian has been publishing books as well as countless essays and articles on art, architecture, interior design and urban planning from antiquity to the present.