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Sustainable design and solutions focusing on the environment, architecture with a “green” heart.
27-12-2023 - Sustainable Architecture
Tarabot by theOtherDada: Biodiversity and sustainability at the Jameel Arts Centre for COP28
Tarabot: Weaving A Living Forum, inspired by an idea by architect Adib Dada of studioOtherDada in Beirut, is a sustainable pavilion inaugurated during COP28 at the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Made with locally sourced materials such as clay, mycelium, date palm waste and upcycled fabric, the pavilion incarnates a circular, ecological ethic and promotes biodiversity.
13-12-2023 - Sustainable Architecture
The Pyramid of Tirana: transforming a historic monument
Dutch architectural practice MVRDV has completed an important project transforming an old monument in the Albanian capital. A facility opened in 1988 as a museum about the dictator Enver Hoxha has now been given new life as a vibrant cultural centre and educational facility in the heart of Tirana, demonstrating the great potential of historic constructions in Brutalist style.
15-11-2023 - Sustainable Architecture
Helvetia, Austin Maynard Architects’ sustainable home in Fitzroy, Melbourne
Located on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD or Central Business District, Fitzroy used to be a degraded suburb but has evolved into a trendy district first made popular by artists, combining history with urban chic. In this eclectic neighbourhood stands Helvetia, a Victorian terraced home renovated by Austin Maynard Architects. After being converted into a boarding-house with a fragmented layout, Helvetia has undergone a new metamorphosis incarnating the ideals of sustainability, practicality and beauty.
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07-06-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Büro Ole Scheeren’s DUO in Singapore, a sustainable tower awarded the CTBUH Award
The DUO complex in Singapore, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, has been presented with the Council of Tall Buildings’ Urban Habitat Award 2021 in the Single Site category. Every year, the prestigious award is given in recognition of a vertical urban habitat that fits well into its environmental and cultural surroundings, where public space is an important element of the project itself.
03-06-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Theorem Winery by Richard Beard Architects
San Francisco-based firm Richard Beard Architects has worked on a 19th-century building complex in the Napa Valley. After renovating the existing constructions, he incorporated a new volume into the complex dedicated to wine tasting, with a design scheme that respects the stylistic features of the past whilst also offering an attractively human scale.
28-05-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Ego to Eco, an installation by Studio EFFEKT at Biennale di Venezia
In the Corderie dell’Arsenale is an installation entitled “Ego to Eco” by Danish architectural practice EFFEKT. It takes the form of a physical representation of a natural ecoysystem populated by seven research and design projects conceived by EFFEKT over the past few years offering potential solutions to today’s challenges, including the question “How will we live together?” posed by the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at Biennale di Venezia.
26-05-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Wittman Estes’s Tsuga Townhomes receives the AIA National Housing Award 2021
Wittman Estes of Seattle has received a 2021 AIA National Housing Award for Tsuga Townhomes, a small complex of three residential units built to be sustainable, both environmentally, with 4 Star Built Green certification, and economically, with a ??45% reduction in construction costs compared to the average for the city of Seattle.
13-05-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Green Pea in Turin, for all-round sustainability
Turin’s Green Pea building by ACC Naturale Architettura Cristiana Catino and Negozio Blu Architetti (Ambrosini, Gatti, Grometto), who designed the first Eataly, is a symbolic building and the last piece fitting into the puzzle of redevelopment of the Carpano Lingotto former industrial zone as part of the initiative for regeneration of the southern part of the city of Turin.
07-05-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design by Lord Aeck Sargent with The Miller Hull Partnership
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta - designed by US firm Lord Aeck Sargent in collaboration with The Miller Hull Partnership - has won one of the AIA COTE® Top Ten Awards. These constitute the industry’s best-known awards programme for excellence in sustainable design and are presented by the AIA which, for the past 25 years, has celebrated ten of the most innovative and outstanding projects in the field of design and sustainability.
