One of several marked projects in Europe was the BoO1 Tango Housing in Malmo, Sweden, by the American firm Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners. In 2001 he was commissioned to design this city block of 27 housing units in the Boplasten. This housing design was sponsored in co-op by the Swedish government and private developers. Their goal was to present a building that would be progressive in sustainability, lifestyle patterns, and integration of new technology, and that would give each unit a distinct expression.

This city block in a residential and office district was built on a brownfield site. It is the term applied to abandoned, usually polluted former industrial lands. Brownfield redevelopment often deploys barrier, venting and cleaning technologies to deal with soil and water contaminants, site instability and subterranean gas buildups. In this case, major soil was removed, and the landscape was replanted with species that extract pollutants, which dominated by heavy metals, from the soil, and others that immobilize them.

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