
Rotterdam, the Netherlands based designer and architect Mart de Jong of design office De Vijf present one of his project design called the Spaceboxes, a Student Housing located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This housing is aimed to provide flexible, low-cost housing for students, key workers and young professionals. Eventhough it is a low-cost housing, The facilities being offered are great just like the extensive bicycle storage to encourage the use...

Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects present one of their project design designing a new student residence for the Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark called Tietgenkollegiet. This Student Housing consists has of 6 floors containing 360 rooms. The building is circular symbol of equality and community is contrasted by projecting the volume of individual residences. via

Designed and built in the middle of the Residential and Social Centre on the Boulevard facilities street by Arons and Gelauff Architects, The University of Twente ’s New Student Housing is located, This designer has completed this 87 apartments for students of this university which is located in the city of Enschede in The Netherlands. The building is nine stories high, and features a climbing wall on one side. the building fits the small-scale...

Design Forum IX: An Architecture of Necessity speakers include David Adjaye, RIBA, who recently made news by being selected to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; Teddy Cruz, AIA, an internationally recognized San Diego-based architect who studies the relationship between architectural sites and their impact on urban spaces; Julie Eizenberg, AIA, whose Santa Monica firm has achieved international...

The conception of Student Housing by Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) project is from a second reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and qualities and to reveal the poetry of the place. The project will act as a catalyst to create a future district by outlining a territory. This consists of complicated relationships between industrial and...

American Campus Communities Inc., one of the largest owners, managers and developers of high-quality student housing properties in the U.S., announced today that the grand opening ceremony for Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, is to be held 9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 15. Speakers include ASU President Michael Crow, Dean Mark Jacobs, Craig and Barbara Barrett, Bayless, and ASU honors students. Tours of the campus...

Phil Sherburne, a pioneer in modern green development, will open his long-awaited Bardessono hotel, restaurant and spa in California’s famed Napa Valley during the first week of February. The 62-room luxury hotel with its 92-seat restaurant and bar is situated on the Bardessono family farmstead in the heart of historic Yountville. Sherburne, who was hand-picked by the Bardessonos to develop their six-acre property, promised an ecologically-friendly...
SCI Real Estate Investments, LLC has announced the acquisition of Kings Cove, a 192-unit luxury apartment-home community in Kingwood, Texas, from Houston-based developer, Dinerstein Companies for tenant-in-common investing. Kings Cove serves as an example of SCI’s smart investment strategy of purchasing institutional-quality apartment communities in growing metropolitan areas, such as Houston and Dallas. Future acquisitions of Class-A multifamily...
Growing numbers of people are looking to rent or let out a room as the credit crunch really starts to bite, according to leading UK house share website RoomBuddies.com. Thousands of new people have already registered their profile on the site so far this month in hope of finding somewhere to live and someone to share the rent and other bills. With the housing market in freefall and few good mortgage deals about, there has never been a better time...
Lowe Enterprises, a diversified national real estate services organization, today announced it has selected Campus Advantage to take over operation of a prominent portfolio of student housing properties. Beginning in November of 2008 the properties will commence operations under a new name — The District. The four student housing properties, comprising one of the best known student housing portfolios in the industry, serve more than 4,100 students...