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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
13-04-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
LuzInterruptus in Valencia to salvage some vegetable gardens
The creative activists of LuzInterruptus participated in “Recuperem La Punta”, an initiative in La Punta, Valencia, Spain, using luminous art to showcase the possible recovery of the inhabitants' old vegetable gardens that were destroyed and now lie unused and forgotten after a major port development.
11-04-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Workshop Flows. The Series - The Right to Water in Favara, Sicily
A Summer School opened at the Farm Cultural Park of Favara, in Sicily, to face one of the most important issues of our times.
02-04-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
A boathouse on the Hood Canal, Hoedemaker Pfeiffer
A boathouse, a typical architecture of the state of Washington, was redesigned and renovated by the Hoedemaker Pfeiffer studio.
27-03-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Streetlight Tagpuro, a study centre and orphanage in the Philippines
The new Streetlight Tagpuro study centre and orphanage in Tacloban City, in the Philippines, is an example of a sustainable and resilient reconstruction realised by architectural studios Eriksson Furunes Architects and Leandro V.
20-03-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Gladstone: Alter Eco Design renovates a former worker’s cottage
With Gladstone, Australian studio Alter Eco Design signed the renovation of a former worker's cottage built in Melbourne in the early 20th century.
15-03-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Pirajá House by Estúdio BRA Arquitectura
A renovation project signed by Estúdio BRA Arquitectura in Sao Paulo, Brazil, transformed an old family house with the typical compartmentalised spaces of the past into an airy and spacious building, with a green rooftop also hosting a vegetable garden.
