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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Database offering a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. Accessible to NYU-affiliated researchers from this link.

Luca Peralta Studio, an Italian design firm based in Rome, has been awarded first prize in the 2014 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards for the category "Old and New ". The Architectural Review offers prizes for architectural excellence in unbuilt or concept projects that are examples of fine architecture, yet respond to the client's development brief and consider the impact of architectural contribute to the community around them.

Specialized website for research on failed architecture

this looks interesting, and features a famous proposal by OMA for the renovation of a housing estate in Amsterdam

Architecture blog with a section on housing

this should also be a good resource

Architects: JOHO Architecture Location:Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea Architect In Charge: Jeonghoon Lee Area: 576 sqm Photographs: Sun Namgoong, Jeonghoon Lee Rural houses, or farmhouses are easily seen around countryside. However, these artificial forms are being placed here and there thoughtlessly in Mother Nature.

Architecture blog

this French project looks fairly sharp!

This project is the renovation of the former Brumétal dealer of old iron into a social housing complex composed of a 4-flat building connected by a large common open space to 3 maisonettes at the rear of the site.

The New York Real Estate Brochure Collection was donated to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library by Yale Robbins, Henry Robbins, and David Magier in 1986. The collection consists of over 9,200 advertising brochures, floor plans, price lists, and related materials that document residential and commercial real estate development in the five boroughs of New York and outlying vicinities from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement at MoMA

Plans for Park Hill began in the 1940's when Sheffield was desperately in need of housing after the war, but construction did not commence until 1957 and was not completed until 1961. Plans for Park Hill began in the 1940s when Sheffield was desperately in need of housing after the war, but construction did not commence until 1957 and was not completed until 1961.

This renovation of a crumbling 1960s tower block in Paris nicknamed "Alcatraz" topped the architecture category of this year's Designs of the Year Awards and is in the running for the top prize to be announced tonight (+ slideshow).

The building was formerly a hostel built for seasonal workers in Leeds back in 1939. It has since been remodeled and updated into a eco residential complex.