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Green Architecture
Livegreenblog addresses issues relating to sustainable living, spanning architecture, ideas, initiatives, materials, workshops and exhibitions through to landscaping. As a daily source of inspiration based around creativity, it explores the green world by means of exclusive interviews with leading players in the sector and by live reporting of major architectural events. Because Livegreenblog isn't just a blog, it's an approach to the world of architecture that cuts across a multitude of disciplines.
24-05-2022 - Sustainable Architecture
Sanjay Puri, sustainable offices on the traditional home model
The Indian architecture firm Sanjay Puri has created a new office building in Raipur, India, based on the traditional Indian courtyard house. Using this model has resulted in a contemporary-looking architecture with a sustainable core.
23-05-2022 - News
Ahad Haam Tower in Haifa, a vertical district
The Ahad Haam Tower is a modern 24-floor skyscraper in Haifa, lsrael’s third largest city. The design is the result of a partnership between Bar Orian Architects and Haifa-based firm Schwartz Besnosoff Architects inspired by the principles of the “Garden City” underpinning the neighbourhood itself, while incorporating a pre-existing building
20-05-2022 - Sustainable Architecture
Tropical Space and the Cuckoo House
The Vietnamese architectural firm Tropical Space has designed The Cuckoo House in Da Nang, in Vietnam. A combination of a café on the ground floor and a family home on the upper floors, all created using natural materials, for a lively yet serene atmosphere.
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19-05-2022 - News
Playful and sustainable, Patch City by ROOI Design and Research
The Chinese ROOI Design and Research studio has designed recyclable multifunctional modules to create temporary settings. Between the Patch-City Pavilion and the Patch-City Café, these modules, conceived as "toy building blocks", allow for a free and flexible combination and can be recycled into furniture after use for the installation.
18-05-2022 - News
Via Latina Apartment by SET Architects
SET Architects has designed the renovation of an apartment in Rome, along Via Latina, one of the oldest roadways in the Italian capital, in the Appio-Latino district. The renovation project conceived by the Rome-based studio is set in a context of great historical importance and plays on the materiality of the surrounding architecture.
17-05-2022 - Materials
CLB Architects, FILTER sustainable pavilion in Times Square
FILTER, the steel and wood pavilion designed by CLB Architects for the Design Pavilion and the NYCxDesign Festival, was on display in Times Square, New York. A monumental object and an ephemeral experience, the pavilion is a space for quiet recentring within the fast-paced energy of Times Square, evoking the rugged Wyoming landscape from which it originates. All made with sustainable materials.
16-05-2022 - Design
Masquespacio interprets a Greek restaurant in Valencia
Masquespacio, the creative agency of Ana Milena Hernández and Christophe Penasse, designed the interior of a Greek fast food restaurant in Valencia, Spain inspired by the restaurant’s existing visual identity, which Masquespacio reinforces with great abstraction and elegance.
13-05-2022 - Materials
Local materials and traditions for RED Arquitectos’ Casa Numa
Mexican studio RED Arquitectos, founded by Susana López González, built a holiday home on the island of Holbox off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula using ecologically friendly local coconut palm wood.
12-05-2022 - News
Zhengzhou Grand Theatre, a cultural hub
Zhengzhou Grand Theatre by The Architectural Design and Research Institute of HIT Co., Ltd. is an emblematic building clearly referencing the traditions of the Chinese city, recalling a boat on the Yellow River. The cultural centre has seats for almost 4 thousand spectators in a number of halls for the performing arts.
