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Tyvek Warehome GrandDesigns CaseStudy: small may be beautiful, but it isn’t always easy. In fact, creating a compact new build to squeeze into a limited footprint in London, while meeting all regulations was a challenge of grand proportions for Joe Stuart of Warehome.
PPJHM Architects have designed an agricultural educational facility for the Coachella Valley Unified School District. Intense climate mitigation and the revitalization of an agricultural community define the Agriculture + Natural Resources Academy.
The climate adaption project in Vorup near Randers, designed by C.F. Møller Architects, resolves the city’s current and future climate challenges by converting the adjacent nature area, Storkeengen (Stork Meadow), into a public nature park.
For a better climate – Mjøstårnet will be over 80 metres tall, 30 metres higher than the world’s tallest timber building. The Norwegian tower sets new standards for timber constructions.
The first CGIs and detailed designs for groundbreaking Citu Home has been unveiled – a new timber framed housing system which will create one of the most airtight and energy efficient homes in the world.
“Sustainable architecture urgently requires new materials if it is to live up to the high energy efficiency and climate protection requirements”, says the chemist, forest scientist, and materials researcher Professor Cordt Zollfrank.
Construction is under way on SXSW Center, the new, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects designed, headquarters of South by Southwest, the Austin-based company that produces the annual SXSW music, film, and interactive festival.
The world’s first ‘Biological House’ has opened its doors to visitors and sets a new high standard for eco-friendly buildings. The leading forces behind this innovative build, Een til Een, built the house in secrecy, and eventually welcomed visitors from all over the world.
Designed by Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos and located in the city’s financial heart, just a few steps from La Castellana, the project the project is a benchmark for innovation, sustainability and design, developed by Zurich Group, to accommodate offices, achieving the A Energy Performance Certificate and the LEED Gold rating.
The Green Sheep Collective’s Smart Home is a renovation and extension to a two-bedroom single-fronted timber Victorian cottage in inner Melbourne. It utilises a wide range of social, healthy, environmental and passive solar design principles and products to create a high-level environmentally sustainable home that is also modestly-sized and affordable.
Central Square development by DLA Design comprises 11 and eight-storey buildings that are joined by a sloped façade creating an atrium and winter garden. The mixed-use development offers office, leisure and retail spaces, and a sky garden.
Bespoke joinery using European oak forms interior design elements such as the staircase, handrails and worktops. The simple rectilinear building forms are clad in Siberian larch rainscreen cladding. A bright red door and simple yellow L-shaped hood over a feature window add focus.
Design: Foster + Partners – Phase 1 of the city, the initial 1,000,000 sqm, will be completed in 2015. Final completion is due to occur between 2020 and 2025
Lead design: Scott Brownrigg with Fonksiyon + TAM/Kiklop. The İstanbul New Airport infrastructure project in Turkey aims to become the first and largest infrastructure project outside North America to obtain Envision® sustainability verification.
National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) and the Russian Green Building Council (RuGBC) announce launch of a partnership with BRE, the world leading multi-disciplinary building science centre.
Architect: Sigurd Larsen. The Green House is one of a series of single family houses is designed for Frikøbing in Denmark. The development plan for the area has high demands on sustainability for construction materials, insulation, energy and air circulation.
Design: Stefano Boeri Architetti. The first Chinese Forest City by Stefano Boeri Architetti is turning into reality. A city where offices, houses, hotels, hospitals and schools are entirely covered by plants and trees