Materials Green Architecture
Innovative, sustainable materials and ideas that make a difference in architecture.
10-01-2020 - Materials
Restaurant Avocado Gang in Prague by Mimosa architekti
Czech firm Mimosa architekti has designed Avocado Gang, the first “avocado” restaurant in Prague. The intense colour of the avocado and food made here inspired the venue’s interior design, with the multicoloured dining table standing in the middle underscored by the shades of grey in the rest of the restaurant.
01-01-2020 - Materials
Sabine Marcelis at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis crafted No Fear of Glass, a site-specific art installation in one of the most iconic spaces of the 20th century, the German Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. A material connection between art and architecture.
24-12-2019 - Materials
Connecting with the history of Vienna, Renngasse 10 by 3XN
The Danish architecture studio 3XN designed the Renngasse 10 apartment building in Vienna’s first district. A contemporary design that adapts to the surrounding historic buildings in a way that complements its neighbours, at the same time retaining its own identity.
RECENT PROJECTS
08-08-2019 - Materials
The Observatory by Simon Hjermind Jensen
Danish architect Simon Hjermind Jensen has created an oval structure in the museum's park for the Munkeruphus Art Museum in the northern part of Zealand, Denmark. The Observatory is an open structure for everyone to use, with room inside for social events and activities.
25-07-2019 - Materials
Lisbon Wood by Plano Humano Arquitectos
Portuguese studio, Plano Humano Arquitectos has converted the general tourist offices in Lisbon into an apartment building.
19-07-2019 - Materials
A traditional 21st century pub in Prague
Czech firm mar s architects has designed Výčep, what the designers call an “(un)traditional Czech pub”; a pub in Prague’s Vinohrady district that combines the typical features of the city’s beer houses with a distinctly contemporary language.
10-07-2019 - Materials
Villa Amiri by Bornstein Lyckefors
The latest project by Swedish architecture firm Bornstein Lyckefors is a single-family villa.
03-07-2019 - Materials
A conversation between past and present: an oratory by K9 Architekten
The designers from the German firm K9 Architekten completed the new oratory alongside the baroque church of Herbolzheim-Rheinhausen.
03-07-2019 - Materials
MATRIX DESIGN for psychological and physical wellbeing
The Chinese studio MATRIX DESIGN recently completed a Fitness Club in Foshan, China.
