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Sustainable design and solutions focusing on the environment, architecture with a “green” heart.
26-03-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Cyrus Tang Foundation Center by UAD
The designers from the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) are behind the headquarters of the Cyrus Tang Foundation (CTF) in the natural setting of the East Tai Lake Ecological Park in Wujiang district, Suzhou. The sustainable architecture aims at optimising functions and blending into the backdrop.
23-03-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
The beauty of nature, House of Flowers
The House of Flowers in Healdsburg, California is a project led by Walker Warner Architects with Maca Huneeus Design for the interiors and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects for the landscape architecture. It is the culmination of the sustainable restoration of an old winery built in the 1970s.
19-03-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Sanjay Puri Architects has designed The Rajasthan School
A new school that is based on the typical architectural elements used in the ancient cities of the state of Rajasthan in India. Sanjay Puri Architects carefully studied the site and responded to the local climate to construct an inherently sustainable school.
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09-03-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
The Core: garage-to-office transformation for CBRE in Amsterdam
The international design firm CBRE has completed its headquarters in Amsterdam. Called The Core, the operation transformed an old multi-storey parking garage into their corporate offices. The intrinsically sustainable project won both the jury prize and the public prize in the Big Office category of the Frame Awards.
05-03-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
San Sa Village by IlLab Architects, a tribute to the senses and to regional culture
San Sa Village is a hotel complex north of Beijing, not far from the Great Wall of China. The project by llLab Architects - on a site that used to be occupied by a petrol station - was conceived as a kind of village-style group of buildings made from local slate and brick.
26-02-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
MultiPly, a carbon neutral installation at Madrid Design Festival 2020
MultiPly, an eight-metre-high wooden pavilion is a collaboration between Waugh Thistleton Architects, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) and ARUP to respond to two of the greatest challenges of our time: the growing need for housing and the urgency to fight change climate, presenting as a solution the fusion of modular systems and sustainable building materials.
21-02-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Riksbyggen’s Solar Egg at the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi
We have been following Solar Egg since its first installation in Kiruna in 2017; the artwork was designed by Swedish artists Bigert & Bergström for the property developer Riksbyggen and it has now arrived at the famous Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, rebuilt every year using the ice from the Torne River. The contrast between ice and heat is an initiative designed to focus on the problems of global warming.
17-02-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable urban regeneration in Barcelona by Arquitectura Anna Noguera
Effective intervention in a challenging neighbourhood to create both a sports facility and a landscaped green area that can engage the local community and improve the urban environment. This is the programme for the Centro Sportivo a Turó de la Peira, Barcelona by Arquitectura Anna Noguera.
10-02-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
The Arches Project, reclaiming abandoned spaces in London
The London-based architectural firm, founded by Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas together with Meanwhile Space CIC, the pioneering social enterprise at the forefront of bringing temporarily redundant space into productive use worked in partnership with the GLA, Lambeth Council and Network Rail (now Arch Company) to deliver a design-led strategy aiming to provide business incubation opportunities.
