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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
24-08-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
WORKac, Edible Schoolyard P.S. 216 in New York
In the run-up to the fourth encounter of The Architects Series at SpazioFMGperl’architettura, Milan on 13 September, with Dan Wood, who co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, WORKac with Amale Andraos, here is one of their really green projects - a schoolyard garden with greenhouse and kitchen at the Arturo Toscanini School in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
13-08-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
UW Transit Station, Seattle, by LMN Architects
A stand-out infrastructure project that blends architecture and art.
10-08-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Manifesta 12 Education Hub, ENORME Studio
The Spanish architects from ENORME Studio, together with the Design and Fine Arts students from the University of Palermo worked on the transformation of an old bus that used to connect the centre of Palermo with Mondello beach into a mobile hub that supports Manifesta 12 initiatives linked to the training programme throughout the city.
07-08-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Architype builds Social Housing in Passivhaus standard
British firm Architype, known for its sustainable approach to design is behind a social housing complex in Shropshire, UK, built to Passivhaus standards to minimise the environmental impact of the new homes.
01-08-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
WSP Architects, China Optics Valley Convention and Exhibition Center
WSP Architects designed the China Optics Valley Convention and Exhibition Center in Wuhan, Central China.
26-07-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Al Borde and Taller General, a dining room in Guadurnal, Ecuador
The project in Guadurnal, Ecuador by the architects from Al Borde and Taller General implements the reuse of materials and existing buildings to create a new space for the local community, which suffered huge losses in the April 2016 earthquake.
