German architect Christoph Klemmt has designed the Parascape project – a new architecture school in Stuttgart. The project was developed as a place for communication and the exchange of ideas, social and gathering spaces are everywhere integrated into the buildings. The building is designed to be transparent, allowing visual connections from each area into the others, [...]

Ryszard Rychlicki of H3AR is a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. He has designed a project Instant House for expo (”Instant Lung“). + Description courtesy of H3AR The main problem of the INSTANT HOUSE for EXPO is the placement of a house in the context of a motorway, where exhaust fumes and noise [...]

Danish architectural studio 3XN recently has completed the head office for Danish law firm Horten in Copenhagen, DK. The project has been developed as an energy saving building which is featuring the three dimensional façade in fiberglass and travertine, it acts as a screen against the sun while still providing a view to the water. + [...]

‘Dragen’ Children’s House by C. F Møller Architects has recently been inaugurated. This integrated kindergarten is one of the passive house in Denmark that using a minimum of energy. The fundamental architectural concept is a simple and clear geometric form on two levels, with the children’s areas located in the best-lit southern end. The [...]

Italian architect Giorgio Comoglio recently has completed the renovation of the Ex Sellerie, which is located in the area of the ex military arsenal in Turin, Italy. The task of the project is to increase the original building’s floor area and height. The minimal form of perforated steel envelope has been introduced to integrate the existing [...]

FLOAT House is the ESD house which can sustain its own water and power needs, designed by Thom Mayne’s LA-based Morphosis firm in association with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. The immense possibilities of the Make It Right initiative became immediately apparent to us: how to re-occupy the Lower [...]

Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]

International architectural firm Aedas has designed an Administration & Information Centre for Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University located in Suzhou Industrial Park, China. This is the Architecture Award winning project awarded by the Asia Pacific Commercial Property Awards 2009. With the environmental concern, the void on facade is not only creating the impressive architectural perspective but also inviting [...]

Mixed use tower in San Jose de Costa Rica, designed by Spanish firm Moho Architects which is currently in schematic design stage and is expected to be completed in 2012. + Project description courtesy of Moho Architects Rising above the skyline of San Jose in Costa Rica, this mixed use tower will be a new landmark, providing [...]

Italy-based architect firm Park Associati has designed a 145 m high Regnum residential and office tower located in Istanbul, Turchia. The sinuous form of the tower consists of three main elements united around a central transparent volume and its various façades change according to the position of the viewer. + Project description courtesy of Park Associati The [...]

The multi-Award winning Cascade House by Canada-based architect firm Paul Raff Studio, is an eco-friendly house equipped with solar design systems. We always start from first principles of human scale and flow, and in search of opportunities to engage light and landscape, once we began to work with glass and slate, the house became characterized by [...]

The honorable mention award project Umm el-Fahem Museum for Contemporary Arab Art, designed by Israel-based architect firm SO Architecture. + Design Statement courtesy SO Architecture The Function of the Museum Today, in the third millennium, amid the daily reality and worries about war and economic hardship, a museum of contemporary art will be built, and will thus form [...]

Australia-based Studio 505 has designed a carbon-neutral office for Grocon located in Former CUB Site, Melbourne, Australia. + Design Statement courtesy of Studio 505 The Former CUB Brewery site is the location for one of Melbourne’s most significant and ambitious developments. Located at a key urban site, the project has been the subject of long discussion and [...]

An ecological sustainable design (ESD) study of over 11,000 m² mixed-used building situated in the Ravel sub-area of the Zuidas in Amsterdam, Netherlands, carried out by Dutch architect Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter and commissioned by the Government Buildings Agency. The sustainability strategies achieved by adopting green house principle, building’s orientation, functional organization, re-use of rainwater [...]