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17-12-2021

Lemoal Lemoal’s sports hall of timber and hempcrete blocks

Lemoal Lemoal’s sports hall in Croissy Beaubourg is made of timber and hempcrete blocks, offering top technical performance.

09-12-2021

A passive building for active people: the o-va sports complex in Kolín

Everyone knows that the gym is good for you – but this one is good for the environment, too, thanks to a series of design choices made by the architects of Czech studio o-va, who built a gym with a reduced environmental footprint in Kolín, on the banks of the Elbe River in the Czech Republic.

29-11-2021

Eric Castagnotto’s winery combining heritage with innovation

French architect Eric Castagnotto expanded a historic winery for Château Angélus, Carillon d'Angélus and N°3 d'Angélus in Saint-Magne de Castillon, France. The result of painstaking reflection on design, the new winery boasts BREEAM environmental certification.

22-11-2021

JGMA and the SOS Children's Villages Illinois’s Roosevelt Square Community Center

The American architecture firm JGMA has designed the Roosevelt Square Community Center of the SOS Children's Villages Illinois organisation. A new cross-laminated timber (CLT) volume that houses both the offices of the SOS Children's Villages Illinois and the community centre with a kitchen space. A place as a physical manifestation of the forward-looking nature of the organisation that looks after children and families.

19-11-2021

blocher partners designs an expansion for Bründl in Kaprun

The architects of German studio blocher partners have designed an expansion for the headquarters of prominent Austrian sporting goods retailer Bründl. Their spectacular expansion of the company’s headquarters in Kaprun, awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture, represents an optimal combination of innovation and sustainability.

04-11-2021

Kastelaz Hof designed by Peter Pichler Architecture

The Peter Pichler Architecture studio has designed a residence which has been conceived and lives in deep symbiosis with its site. Kastelaz Hof is a contemporary solution inserted in a natural context of great value, in the charming town of Termeno in South Tyrol, from which the forms and materiality of the residence take inspiration.

18-10-2021

Prodesi/Domesi designs small cottage inspired by a ship cabin

The latest project by the Czech architectural firm Prodesi/Domesi is a small holiday home inspired by a ship cabin. A cottage engaged in an intense dialogue with the nature of the artificial lake on whose shore it stands and characterised by a marked materiality projected by the careful attention to the surrounding environmental context.

14-10-2021

Atelier Pierre Thibault designs contemporary house on Brome Lake

The relationship with the surrounding landscape, the vivid colours and the enchanting scenery on the shores of Brome Lake are the strengths of the residential project designed by the Atelier Pierre Thibault studio in the Eastern Townships administrative region in southeastern Quebec, in Canada. “La Résidence du Lac Brome ” is a contemporary home that allows its inhabitants to live in close contact with the natural environment. With its full-height transparent windows and very few opaque structural elements, it stands as a large covered terrace from which to enjoy wide panoramic views of the lake and of the surrounding mountainous landscape.