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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.
RECENT PROJECTS
22-05-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Street Seats 2019, Parsons School of Design is back with its pop-up public space
Public space is not a common sight in New York.
09-05-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Le Jardinier, sustainable residential complex in Montreal by DHOC
With the residential complex in Montreal called Le Jardinier, the team from the Canadian architecture firm ADHOC have designed an important mid-density project to revive the neighbourhood.
30-04-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Whole Earth Montessori School by PDMA
Paul Michael Davis Architects has designed the new building of the Whole Earth Montessori School in Bothell, Washington on an already existing foundation.
23-04-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
A sustainable pavilion in Montreal
The “Pavillon d'accueil du Parcours Gouin” designed by Birtz Bastien Beaudoin Laforest BBBL, Provencher_Roy Group, in Montreal, Canada, is the first “net-zero” energy building in the Canadian city, producing as much energy as it consumes.
17-04-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Atelier YokYok, Accordion Arch
Parisian architecture studio Atelier YokYok led a workshop for the Orléans School of Art and Design in Higher Education (ESAD Orléans) exploring modular structures with students.
16-04-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Wellbeing and productivity, Evolution Design for HB Reavis
The Swiss architecture and design studio Evolution Design developed the new headquarters for HB Reavis UK company in the City of London.
