The Hello Living condo project in Brooklyn was marketed as an urban utopia, a collection of low-rise apartments designed for young families without large inheritances or bonuses.
The projects include an apartment building with retail space on the ground floor, condominiums for first-time homebuyers and apartments designed for older residents.
This complex of 260 apartments, designed for members of a largely immigrant working class, was considered so revolutionary that Jacob Riis, in "How the Other Half Lives," described Riverside Houses as "the beau ideal of the model tenement".
Most of the retirement communities affiliated with schools offer apartments designed for independent living, with just enough nursing-home beds and units for those who need part-time care so that residents can be assured a place if they become infirm.
In 2006, a 36-unit apartment building, designed for low-income and disabled residents was dedicated as the "Sgt. Jose Calugas, Sr. Apartments" in High Point, Seattle.
The apartment is designed for grand entertaining.
To the left the high street leads to the river, and rows of smart new apartment blocks designed for bankers working in nearby Canary Wharf.
With his brothers, Gustave and Claude, he built (1903) at 25 rue Franklin, Paris, what was probably the first apartment block designed for reinforced-concrete construction.
The metropolis that would rise from undesirable farmland in counties Mayo and Roscommon would include an initial population of 100,000, apartment complexes designed for "maximum tranquillity," the finest in hospitals and schools, and even an ice rink designed for international competition.
