Cover (above) Gregor Hofbauer
Alterlaa in Vienna is a utopian complex of over 3,000 rent-capped apartments, seven rooftop swimming pools and numerous niche neighbourhood clubs. For the many people suffering in unaffordable housing in cities around the world, the project shouts: ‘look at what is possible’

Folio (lead image) Associated Press / Alamy
Protests for the right to housing periodically erupt in cities such as Lisbon (above) where house prices reportedly increased by 18 per cent in the last three months of 2025

Essay
Form follows rent freeze
Charlotte Banks

Building
De Nieuwe Meent in Amsterdam, the Netherlands by Time to Access
Mark Minkjan

Reputations
Olive Morris
Lola Olufemi

Building
Short-term housing in Paris, France by NZI Architectes
Manon Mollard

Building
Housing prototypes in Bhopal and Indore, India by Dhammada Collective
Prasad Shetty

In practice
Nightingale Housing
Lara Chapman

Building
House for five women in Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina by TEN Studio
Ajna Babahmetović

Outrage
Racial segregation on the rooftops of Johannesburg
Hannah Crowe

Revisit
Zhemchug in Tashkent, Uzbekistan by Ofeliia Aidinova
Oliver Wainwright

Building
Star Homes in Mtwara Region, Tanzania by Ingvartsen Architects
Peter Muiruri

Essay
Dakar’s last bubble houses
Carole Diop

Book review
The social republic of Dublin
Owen Hatherley

Film review
Viennese utopia under threat
Maik Novotny

Book review
London’s housing deadlock
Michael Walker