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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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08-05-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Applied recycling with Scavenger Studio by Olson Kundig
Scavenger Studio is a small, 64-square-metre house in woodlands not far from Seattle, in the Puget Sound region, and it was built from material that the architect Les Eerkes for Olson Kundig scavenged from nearby homes slated for demolition.
07-05-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Atelier Hoffman, redevelopment of a former industrial estate near Prague
The architects from Czech firm Atelier Hoffman are behind this original conversion of an industrial building as part of the redevelopment of an old screw factory on the Vltava river, not far from Prague to craft a new, multifunctional space.
04-05-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
House Viewing, exhibition at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo
"House Viewing" is an exhibition at the National Museum in Oslo examining the current state of housing development; it expands the revamped permanent exhibition called "Housing Design" that gives visitors an overview of housing ideals and ideas over the last one hundred years.
02-05-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
AIA COTE 2018, San Francisco Art Institute Fort Mason Center Pier 2
One of the ten recipients selected by the the Committee on the Environment (COTE) of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for sustainable design excellence in the United States, the San Francisco Art Institute - Fort Mason Center Pier 2 by Leddy Maysum Stacey Architects is the transformation of an old U.
23-04-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
AIA 2018 COTE Top Ten Awards, Sawmill by Olson Kundig
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has announced the recipients of its COTE Top Ten Awards and the COTE Top Ten Plus winner.
17-04-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
TANDEM, an energy self-sufficient public space
The public space is investigated in terms of its energy self-sufficiency.
