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30-01-2020

RaeRae House by Austin Maynard Architects combines form and function

With RaeRae House, the team from Australian firm Maynard Architects have crafted a house that conceals a practical, functional and sustainable structure behind an iconic appearance. It incorporates two terrace houses, reinterpreted with a fresh approach and attention to the context.

31-12-2019

The Best of Livegreenblog 2019: interior design

We’re taking a look at our “Best of 2019” to close the year. Interior design has always been an important topic for Livegreenblog, particularly when it comes to makeovers, so a rundown of some of the projects we featured during the year is a must. Here, we’re travelling from China to Argentina, from the Czech Republic to Russia, to end up in Italy.

13-12-2019

Golden Pin Design Award 2019, and the winner is...sustainability

On 5 December, the Golden Pin Design Award - the international design award that celebrates products or projects expressly created for Chinese-speaking communities - announced the 30 Best Design winners and 2 Special Annual Award winners for Circular Design and Social Design.

18-11-2019

EXPO 67 Montreal, redevelopment by Lemay

The Canadian firm Lemay is a leading provider of integrated design services for the built environment and has now worked its magic on the 1967 International and Universal Exposition or EXPO 67 site in Montreal, Canada. The design team has given the site original heart a total makeover as the new Espace 67, and their concept blends the enchanting natural setting and rich historic past of this exceptional site, to give the city a truly versatile space.

14-08-2019

Tabanlioglu Architects Beyazit State Library Istanbul

Tabanlıoğlu Architects completes the restoration of one of the largest and oldest libraries in Istanbul, the Beyazit State Library. Founded in 1884, inside a 16th century building, the library houses more than 25,000 books and rare manuscripts. The project is one of the finalists in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

12-08-2019

Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu PC Caritas, an experimental space in Melle

In the Flemish province of East Flanders, in the town of Melle, the architectural firm De Vylder Vinck Taillieu has transformed the Sint-Jozef building, located in the centre of the Caritas campus, into a new and experimental public space for discovering and defining new possible ways of living.

20-06-2019

Layering Courtyard in Beijing by ARCHSTUDIO

With its project called “Layering Yard”, ARCHSTUDIO has reinvented a traditional industrial building and quadrangle near Beijing’s historic Qianmen gate.

11-04-2019

Ignazio Gardella, rationalist gems in Alessandria

During one of the open days organised by FAI – the National Trust for Italy – when the general public can visit architectural monuments that are normally off-limits, the church of the former tuberculosis sanatorium in Alessandria very first building designed by Ignazio Gardella, one of Italy's great 20th century architects Ignazio Gardella was one of Italy's most important and influential architects and designers in the 1900s but very few people are familiar with his first work - the church of the “Sanatorio Antitubercolare Vittorio Emanuele III”, the old tuberculosis sanatorium, now the “Centro Riabilitativo Polifunzionale Teresio Borsalino”, a multipurpose rehabilitation centre in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont.