Pfaffmann + Associates

10/10/2025

12/19/2024

AI fail

11/21/2024

NYC subway looked like this in 1904

11/19/2024

Riverlofts !

Architecture studio Natura Futura Arquitectura and architect Juan Carlos Bamba have created a floating house along the Babahoyo River in Ecuador.

03/23/2024

Pipers Pub Toad in the hole and Vegan Vegetable Curry

03/20/2024

“The 1980s may well be the era of making do, doubling up with parents, buying a house with several people unrelated to you, making dollhouses livable, learning creative financing tactics, budgeting up to 40 percent of your gross income for shelter costs — or, yes, simply getting used to renting indefinitely,” the authors lament following the statistic that the average American home price reached an all-time high in May 1984 of $101,000. Pittsburgh then ranked 186th for housing costs, “just under the midpoint.” (Today, though still affordable by national comparison, Pittsburgh’s median home listing price is $255,000, with those in the market facing other obstacles to buying).”

Take a trip with us to 1985 via Rand McNally’s Places Rated Almanac.

03/20/2024

Housing issues are often portrayed as a generational clash, but the suburban experiment harms everyone.

"So the big problem is that since WWII, we started building for the car first and the person second." - Rodney Harrell, AARP Vice President of Family, Home and Community

Full article: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/3/13/aarp-whats-good-for-older-americans-is-good-for-all-of-us

03/20/2024

03/20/2024

Peter Barber's architecture proves that providing social housing at scale without making the design mistakes of the past is eminently possible, writes Owen Hatherley as part of our Social Housing Revival series.

03/20/2024

Why can’t American transit agencies create a right of way like this?

03/20/2024

We’re last!

A new report from Zillow says American households need to make at least $106,536 to comfortably afford the typical priced U.S. home.

03/19/2024

Built in 1902, the Fuller Building, designed by architects Daniel Burnham and Frederick Dinkelberg, stood as one of New York's iconic symbols. At 20 floors, it was the city's tallest structure, occupying 23,690.3 m2 on a triangular plot at the intersection of 5th Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street.