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Sustainable design and solutions focusing on the environment, architecture with a “green” heart.
16-08-2023 - Sustainable Architecture
MVRDV’s Matrix ONE in Amsterdam, a circular construction
Matrix ONE, an innovative building designed by Dutch architectural practice MVRDV to contain laboratories and offices in the Amsterdam Science Park, is a structure that can be completely taken apart to reuse the elements in similar high-quality constructions: a building combining the principle of circularity with a strong focus on users’ well-being.
05-07-2023 - Sustainable Architecture
Luca Gnizio‘s Forsoultree sculpture for reconnecting with nature
Eco-social artist Luca Gnizio transformed a fallen tree in Fiesole’s Monte Ceceri Monumental Park into a circular artwork. True to the principle of the three „R’s“, reduce - reuse – recycle, Forsoultree is a sculpture that invites people to enter into contact with nature in the womb of a tree.
10-05-2023 - Sustainable Architecture
IAAC builds FLORA, an observatory in the Barcelona forest
FLORA, an acronym for Forest Lab for Observational Research and Analysis, is a facility in the Collserola Natural Park (Barcelona) developed by a team of students and researchers from IAAC's Master’s in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities (MAEBB). Built from sustainable, locally-sourced materials, it allows researchers to monitor the forest from within.
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08-11-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
KCAP and Zecc Architecten design new Kade Noord residential complex in Zutphen
Dutch architectural firms KCAP and Zecc Architecten have completed the design for a new Kade Noord residential urbanisation in the Noorderhaven Zutphen development area, a town located about 30 km north-east of Arnhem. This sustainable district, conceived from the reconversion of an industrial area, develops around a large green courtyard inspired by the local landscape.
27-10-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Hacker Architects renovates Fariborz Maseeh Hall at Portland State University
The American Hacker Architects studio has designed the renovation of the Fariborz Maseeh Hall at Portland State University in Oregon. An intervention concerning both the exteriors and the interiors of the existing structure, transforming an outdated fortress-like building, originally built in the 1960s, into a light-filled and interactive academic hub.
14-10-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
MFLA Landscape Design Studio and the most sustainable winery in the USA
The designers from the Munden Fry Landscape Associates - MFLA studio have created, in collaboration with Piechota Architecture, the only "zero net water and energy" winery in the USA with the Alexander Valley Silver Oak Winery in California. The Silver Oak Winery has obtained both the LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certifications.
12-10-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Building Natural Connections Webinars
Floornature is the exclusive media partner of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - University of Cambridge and of the Future Spaces Foundation for the “Building Natural Connections” webinar series organised in the run-up to the "UN Climate Change Conference" COP26. In view of the third appointment of the series on the social value of architecture, here is a summary of the previous two appointments in the series.
29-09-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
Transformation in San Francisco by Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design
The Oakland-based Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design firm has designed the transformation of a multi-residential structure in San Francisco, known as the Filbert Cottages. The pre-existing structures dating back to the busy construction period that followed the devastating 1906 earthquake, have been recovered with technically updated and contemporary details and architectural elements.
21-09-2021 - Sustainable Architecture
THISS at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
The British architecture firm THISS, founded by architects Tamsin Hanke and Sash Scott, is present at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 (SBAU) with the Resilient Monument project. The installation in the Cities section of the SBAU investigates the meaning of monuments, examined from the point of view of resilience.
