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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Color architecture, Denmark, ESD design, Glass, Green architecture, Skin
C. F. Møller Architects recently has completed the office complex – Vitus Bering Innovation Park located in Horsens, Denmark. The building’s dynamic and innovative character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the facades, the movement is seen in the glazing strips that stretch towards the sky across the six storeys of the building and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Christoph Klemmt, Germany, Green architecture, School
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, H3AR
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: 3XN, Cladding, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, Random pattern, Stone
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. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture, Kindergarten, Random pattern, School
‘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 two [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Minimalism, Perforated, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, Studio Comoglio Architetti
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Morphosis
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Green architecture, Skyscrapers
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Aedas, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Green architecture, Iconic architecture
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office Tags: Costa Rica, ESD design, Green architecture, Iconic architecture, Moho Architects, Skyscrapers, South American architecture
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Residential, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Park Associati, Skyscrapers, Turchia
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, ESD design, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Stair, Swimming pool
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 [...]
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