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Prefab is a flexible, small-footprint solution for delivering housing to remote areas, über-dense urban environments or even the cottage. Here are three concepts – by Leckie Studio, Drop Structures and Yves Behar – to keep an eye on.

With its reflective curtainwalls, this concrete gem of a single-family home by Luxembourg architecture firm 2001 shows how unfinished materials create amazing effects.

Coloured concrete lends a warm patina to Taller Héctor Barroso’s multi-family residence in the Mexican capital.

With subtly rotated levels, Stack House in L.A. by FreelandBuck offers seamless indoor-outdoor spaces at every turn.

T B A | Thomas Balaban Architect has designed the Hôpital Vétérinaire du Parc, a vibrant veterinary hospital, as well as the elegant suite above it where the owner lives.

By playing up natural materials like wood and marble – and sculpting light directly into the interior design – Mason Studio crafts luxury townhouses that emphasize modern minimalism.

In Hertfordshire, England, the ruins of an 18th century cottage have been converted into a contemporary studio by Kate Darby and and David Connor. But the home’s ancient bones, and the stories they tell, have been preserved.

When Architect K was tasked with designing a house for a Korean retiree, it reimagined the traditional vernacular of the hanok in a modern way.

The key to integrating massive numbers of refugees, Germany has found, is stable housing that accommodates families of all sizes. But will the rest of the world – and Germany itself – take heed?

Copper plumbing and a dramatic structural column becomes the focal point in a Brooklyn loft’s transformation by local practise New Affiliates.