Materials Green Architecture
Innovative, sustainable materials and ideas that make a difference in architecture.
03-08-2020 - Materials
The young designers from the architecture firm, ORA based in Znojmo, Czech Republic, completed a house inside the remains of an old building in Zadní Arnoštov, a village in the Moravia region. A project for the grand architecture that respects its layers of history without creating a historical fake.
20-07-2020 - Materials
The Shuyang Art Gallery by UAD a showcase for traditional calligraphy
The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) has designed an art gallery which focuses on traditional Chinese calligraphy in Shuyang, China, the birthplace of this art. The striking materiality of this architecture is set off by the three fundamental colours of Chinese calligraphy - black, white and red.
17-07-2020 - Materials
ALENCASTRE 360, a house in Mexico City by HEMAA
With ALENCASTRE 360, the Mexican architectural firm HEMAA has created an outstanding private home in Mexico City. Underlying the project is the desire to preserve the existing trees and incorporate them into the architectural concept.
RECENT PROJECTS
03-07-2019 - Materials
MATRIX DESIGN for psychological and physical wellbeing
The Chinese studio MATRIX DESIGN recently completed a Fitness Club in Foshan, China.
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.
01-07-2019 - Materials
Maison Atelier by yh2 architecture studio
Marie-Claude Hamelin and Loukas Yiacouvakis of the yh2 architecture studio have created their new Maison Atelier in Montreal, built in the backyard of the firm’s Maison Tour studio, constructed in 2000.
21-06-2019 - Materials
Makeover of a Swiss chalet by BUREAU
BUREAU, the studio of Daniel Zamarbide has completed the makeover of a typical Swiss chalet in Geneva.
10-06-2019 - Materials
Hariri Pontarini Architects, Bahá’í temple in Chile
The Bahá’í Temple of South America in Chile, designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects has been shortlisted for the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) International Prize.
05-06-2019 - Materials
German prize for wood buildings 2019
Deutscher Holzbaupreis, is a two-yearly prize for wood buildings sponsored by the German Ministry of the Interior, Building and Housing and it also encompasses the timber trade associations, from industry to craftsmen.
