Architecture critic Justin Davidson reviews the affordable housing project, The Atrium in Bedford-Stuyvesant, for New York Magazine’s Curbed.

“With the Atrium, Libeskind has given vulnerable people a place they can gradually make their own. He has also demonstrated that the daunting list of rules, requirements, prohibitions, and economic strictures that govern affordable housing in New York don’t have to choke off inventive architecture. The firms with experience negotiating those constraints don’t generally indulge in innovation, and those that prize capital-A Architecture avoid the long and frustrating gauntlet of New York’s housing bureaucracy. Getting this project finished — assembling the team, winning the job, completing the design, gathering the funding, and finally putting up the building — took seven years.”

An Interview with Nina and Daniel Libeskind at their residence in Berlin. To concur: they are enviably harmonious, full of fun and enthusiasm – a gorgeous couple. They say it themselves: it never gets boring with them!

Tech workers, like artists, can be useful for property developers to follow when they are seeking the “next big thing”. They will scrutinise, for example, the real estate investment opportunities prompted by the Cambridge to Oxford railway line and “tech corridor”, which was promised a funding boost in the autumn statement last week. They will also consider where the extra 500 workers that Facebook plans to hire for its new London headquarters in Fitzrovia, will live, as well as those commuting to the new Apple headquarters at Battersea Power Station.

Where the geeks go, the builders will often follow.

A cover feature by architecture critic James Russell. He reviews Daniel Libeskind’s masterplan and residences for the CityLife in Milan.

Kö-Bogen has been announced today Best Urban Regeneration Project at MIPIM Awards 2014.