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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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04-04-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
PROULXSAVARD and CCM2 architects, a school extension
The Canadian architecture firms, PROULXSAVARD and CCM2 architects together designed the extension of the Metis Beach Intermediate School in Québec, as a virtuous example of innovation for education and sustainable development.
14-03-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Opat Architects and the house in Red Hill South
What for Rowan Opat of Opat Architects was supposed to be a minor update of an existing holiday house in regional Victoria, Australia turned into a new architecture with minimum environmental impact and a new take on the relationship between what is manmade and what is nature.
11-03-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Lez-in-Art by NBJ Architectes, a sustainable apartment building in Montpellier
With the Lez-in-Art apartment building in Montpellier, French studio NBJ Architectes headed by Elodie Nourrigat and Jacques Brion has designed sustainable architecture that elegantly responds to the masterplan for the Port Marianne-Rive gauche area.
08-03-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Atelier COLE and a bear sanctuary in Vietnam
In a collaboration with Cát Tiên National Park, Free the Bears and Building Trust international, COLE have completed the design of a series of buildings serving to house bears rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and bear bile industry.
06-03-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
Exhibition Irreplaceable Landscapes, Dorte Mandrup
This spring, the exhibition Irreplaceable Landscapes will transform part of the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), Copenhagen into a dreamy landscape to explore work by the architect Dorte Mandrup who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her firm this year.
04-03-2019 - Sustainable Architecture
A small sustainable house amidst nature by i29 and Chris Collaris
The team formed of i29 interior architects and Chris Collaris, architect, designed a tiny holiday house in Vinkeveense Plassen, the Netherlands.
