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Residents elect
As members of one of Denmark’s largest housing co-operatives, the occupants of one cobbled Copenhagen thoroughfare are a community in control. We meet the neighbours in Nørrebro.
Can apartment blocks really forge communal bonds and help tenants get closer to nature?
As these three developments show, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.
Complex life
How Whitlam Place in Melbourne eschews the cookie-cutter design of most new apartment complexes springing up in the fast-growing city.
Inside Jørn Utzon’s Fredensborg Houses, where architecture and community age well
The foreboding exteriors of the Fredensborg Houses have been compared with a prison. But inside, Jørn Utzon’s revolutionary housing project is as captivating as his masterpiece: the Sydney Opera House.
Better together
Could a co-operative housing estate in Switzerland be the model for a new way of living, helping city dwellers escape high rents? We head to Mehr als Wohnen to find out.
Stairway to heaven
The co-operative apartment block in Valencia that’s a brutalist triumph, casting a spiritual spell on its devoted residents.
Modern times
Deep in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico’s El Monte condominium is a slice of US-style modernism. To its residents, it’s not simply a home but a thoughtful experiment in how to live.
