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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
12-02-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
vulcanica architettura and the Brin69 project in Naples
Brin69 is a redevelopment project for a large, attractive and majestic early 20th-century industrial shed in Naples.
08-02-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Sky House, a net zero house on the lake
Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster designed a holiday house on Stoney Lake in Ontario, Canada that combines local, hardwearing materials with sustainable design solutions for a building that brings together real style with a low environmental impact.
06-02-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
2018 AIA Awards Gohar Khatoon Girls' School in Afghanistan
A project by US-based architect Robert Hull, FAIA and the University of Washington, Department of Architecture has received one of the 2018 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture.
31-01-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Exhibition Fostering Society: Foster + Partners
An ambitious exhibition showcasing the work of the internationally renowned integrated design firm Foster + Partners.
12-01-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc, a registered LEED Gold school
Canadian firm Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc.
11-01-2018 - Sustainable Architecture
The Triangle of the Vegetables by Natura Futura Arquitectura
The architects from the Ecuadorian firm Natura Futura Arquitectura have created a greenhouse using local materials and as a self-building initiative in Nayón, near Quito, with the partners of Huertomanías, a cooperative whose members have some mental health problems.
