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If Rosamond Bernier had not been born 95 years ago, she would have been invented as a heroine in a French Romantic novel.

Triptyque’s building of artists’ studios suggests a wholly different approach to the ecofriendly apartment block.

François Roche’s 1,400 square foot hiding place.

Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid has a Montessori school and a cinema amid the 644 apartments, but the sky loop boasts a swimming pool.

Bjarke Ingels’s much-discussed 8 House, which has 476 residences in all, is just one example of how he’s rethinking form and function in an urban setting.

Michael Maltzan Architecture’s innovative building next to the Santa Monica Freeway for formerly homeless residents.

Everywhere, metropolises big and small are percolating with ideas on how to improve themselves, their apartment complexes, their bridges, their kindergartens, their beds.Here are some of the best.�

�Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,� curated by Barry Bergdoll, will open this February 15.

Art collector Christian Boros’s air-raid bunker that gained air rights.

The midtown landmark will officially reopen on October 25.