Dekalb Commons Breaks Ground

News Press Sep 27 The excerpt below is from New York YIMBY: Dekalb Commons Affordable Housing Complex Breaks Ground In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn By: Sebastian Morris, September 16, 2023 Dekalb Commons, renderings by Nightnurse Images City officials, project partners, and community leaders recently joined to celebrate the commencement of construction at Dekalb Commons, a three-building affordable housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Magnusson Architecture & Planning and developed in partnership…


What we can learn from Nordic countries about affordable housing

The article below is an op-ed by MAP Founding Principal Magnus Magnusson published in Crains New York Business, May 15, 2023 Everyone is talking about making New York housing more affordable and plentiful. But there are lessons from a unique "home-centric" culture that shouldn’t be overlooked. As an Iceland-born architect who has been designing housing in New York for more than 30 years, I’ve seen the achievements and failures of…


Sol on Park Featured in FastCompany

The excerpts below are from: How to design homes for life well beyond 100: The senior housing industry is starting to plan—and build—for a much older future. by Nate Berg, FastCompany The world is getting older. By 2050, the global population of people in their 80s will be three times what it is today. According to the Stanford Center on Longevity, half of all the 5-year-olds currently living in the…