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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Canada, Community Center, ESD design, Exhibition, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Refurbishment / Extension, Research
Paul Raff Studio has designed the Biosphere Sustainability Centre in the Thousand Island Region in Ontario, Canada, it is the multi-use cultural facility which will be a powerful catalyst to environmental, social and economic sustainable development. MISSION To partner and leverage natural and human capital to improve environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes by demonstrating [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Competition, ESD design, Green architecture, Random pattern, Sweden
Last month, we featured C. F. Møller Architects‘ the winning Ferry Terminal project in Stockholm’s new high-profile environmental development Norra Djurgaardsstaden. Recently, C. F. Møller Architects has won another competition in the same area, the competition for 18 sustainable town houses. + Project description courtesy C. F. Møller Architects Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm is known worldwide as [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Egypt, Green architecture, Nabil Gholam, Random pattern
Nabil Gholam architects has designed the Cairo Eastown residential project located in the residential area of the Cairo Eastown development; bordered by a pedestrian green spine, the plots are structured around a central green space that is shared between the different clusters. The plots benefit from a strategic view towards a public green space. Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Green architecture, Lebanon, Nabil Gholam, Skyscrapers, White
Skygate is the Residential project designed by Lebanon-based architectural practice Nabil Gholam architects. The seducing aspect of Beirut’s juxtaposing architecture, of past and present, traditional and modern creativity sets the milieu for the Skygate development. Located on a hilly promontory of Ashrafieh, Skygate provocatively completes what appears as an urban wall rising in this central [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Green architecture, McGregor Coxall, Public square
The Sydney-based landscape design studio Mcgregor Coxall as the lead designers designed the Ballast Point Park sited on the Birchgrove Peninsula in the inner reaches of Sydney harbour, Australia. + Project description courtesy of Mcgregor Coxall Ballast Point Park This 2.8ha park is located on a contaminated former industrial lubricant production site on the Birchgrove [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Mexico, REC Arquitectura
Mexico-based firm REC Arquitectura has designed the sustainable office building – Enramada in Morelos, Mexico. + Project description courtesy of REC Arquitectura Besides having a glass facade, we are on each level leaving free all the bounded side and central cube, to provide natural illumination to all the plants and in that way required less [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: 3XN, Construction, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture, Modular design, White
In Denmark, Middelfart Savings Bank by 3XN recently has unveiled. The project was awarded the MIPIM Future Projects Award in 2006. The idea behind the Middelfart Savings Bank design is to let the building room an entire public space with a small square, shops, and a café. All this kept together under the same big [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Architects Collective, Austria, Green architecture, Prefab
Austrian architect Architects Collective recently has completed the fruit production facility for the Leeb Fruit Orchard. It was built in “passive house” standard by the prefabricated structure, wall and roof elements which were primarily constructed using renewable and recycled materials. + Project description courtesy of Architects Collective The new production facility for the Leeb Fruit [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, ESD design, Green architecture, H3AR, Skyscrapers, USA architecture
Polish 4th year students of architecture Academy of Fine Arts, Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak of H3AR received a special mention for their proposal in the 2010 skyscraper competition – Rain Collector Skyscraper. The proposal understands the water consumption of its inhabitants in US, it aims to capture rainwater as much as possible through the [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Africa, ESD design, Green architecture, H3AR, Skyscrapers, UGO
Hugon Kowalski of H3AR recently designed the Watertower which was inspired by a water tower and also by the symbol of the African savanna – the baobab. This proposal is part of the 2010 skyscraper competition hosted by evolo magazine. + Project description courtesy of Hugon Kowalski of H3AR This is a special year for [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, mode:lina, Poland, Skyscrapers, White
Polish studio mode:lina architektura & consulting proudly presents: GESTERBINE / gesture + water + turbine / The anti-steppisation device. Problem The main reason of steppisation in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) is the specific location – the area between oceanic and continental climates characterized by a small amount of precipitation (even less than 500 mm a year, [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: 3XN, Architecture Award, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture
Louisiana Pavilion by 3XN architects was designed to demonstrate cutting edge possibilities with sustainable and intelligent materials. The pavilion has now been honoured with the JEC Innovation Award 2010 for its design combining sustainability and intelligent materials. The Pavilion is on exhibit at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until April 1 2010. The Pavilion [...]
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