A new range of floating modular homes has been designed by the architect behind the Stirling Prize-nominated revamp of London Bridge railway station.

Grimshaw teamed up with Dutch manufacturing group Concrete Valley to produce designs for the Modular Water Dwelling, described by the pair as a potential solution to the shortage of affordable housing in urban areas, “free of the constraints of land-based construction and resilient to the mounting threat of flooding from rising sea-levels”.

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