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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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01-05-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Yongjiang Experimental School in Jiangbei District by DC Alliance
The Chinese architecture firm DC Alliance has completed the Yongjiang Experimental School in Jiangbei District, Ningbo, arranging the architectural volumes around a large courtyard that serves as the core of the school activities, also intended as student interaction and the pleasure of spending time together.
29-04-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award - 2020
The Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) announced the two recipients of the 2020 Emerging Architectural Practice Award. They are Toronto-based studio PARTISANS and Nine Yards Studio from Charlottetown.
23-04-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Natural Elements Arkís Architects
Arkís Architects was founded in Reykjavik in 1997 and is one of Iceland’s largest architecture firms, completing works both locally and abroad. Their sustainable architecture has firm roots in the country’s tradition and landscape.
20-04-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
LUO Studio, a community centre in Yuanheguan
The architects from LUO Studio have completed a new community centre in the village of Yuanheguan, in China’s Hubei province, using the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project. Design in the name of architectural and urban recovery.
16-04-2020 - Sustainable Architecture
Camp O House by Maria Milans Studio, living and working in nature
Camp O is a combined house and studio in the Catskills, part of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. Here, the Spanish architect, Maria Milans del Bosch from Maria Milans Studio, designed a building with sleek shapes, reinterpreting the local vernacular architecture to seamlessly blend into the surrounding woods.
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.
