Tag Sustainability

07-08-2018

Architype builds Social Housing in Passivhaus standard

British firm Architype, known for its sustainable approach to design is behind a social housing complex in Shropshire, UK, built to Passivhaus standards to minimise the environmental impact of the new homes.

20-07-2018

Exhibition Barcel/on/a/line. Green urban strategies from river to river

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is inaugurating, for the seventh year in a row, the exhibition of the final degree projects in the emblematic architectural development of the Barcelona Royal Shipyards, currently the home of the Maritime Museum.

09-05-2018

Dominique Coulon: a residential and office building in Strasbourg

Dominique Coulon won a competition launched by the municipality of Strasbourg in 2009 for the self-production of a mixed use sustainable building. Today the tower block in the Krutenau area is his home and the office of Dominique Coulon Architects.

11-04-2018

Freeing Architecture. Junya Ishigami at the Fondation Cartier

From 30 March to 10 June 2018, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain of Paris presents Freeing Architecture, the first major solo exhibition devoted to the work of Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, winner of the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010.

30-03-2018

Steven Holl’s horizontal skyscraper in Shenzhen, China

Steven Holl has constructed a building the size of the Empire State Building in China, nicknamed the horizontal skyscraper

21-03-2018

MIPIM Awards 2018: Milan Porta Nuova awarded for the Best Urban Regeneration Project category

The Porta Nuova urban redevelopment project in Milan won the MIPIM Awards 2018 for the Best Urban Regeneration Project category.

22-02-2018

Italian Design Day 2018 - Piuarch is one of the 100 ambassadors

On March 1, 100 world cities will host 100 events for 100 ambassadors of Italian design all over the world. Piuarch is one of the architectural studios selected to participate in the initiative.

17-11-2017

BSHF is now known as World Habitat

Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) has changed its name but certainly not its mission.