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Design: L. McComber. Creative and inspiring, Piknic Électronik HQ speaks to the values of the burgeoning company through its layout. Fun, relaxed, open-plan, it offers the optimal balance between peaceful and lively areas.
Design: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture – giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.
Design: FRANTZEN et al architecten. Energy-neutral building with a unique 30m high wooden loadbearing structure in which the wooden columns, beams and walls remain visible. Apartments use hollow floors for totally flexible layouts. The building provides its own energy
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Design: Murat Gedik. The roof of the building is completely covered with a solar panel that produces the energy needed for total energy consumption by the household. Thanks to the roof style, the rain and snow water can be accumulated to be utilized later.
Design: Hudson Architects.Roots and Shoots provides vocational training in horticulture, floristry and retail, together with functional and life skills, to disadvantaged young people with additional needs. The new building will increase the charity’s capacity for helping young people.
Forward-thinking organisations in Lancashire, London and China win for their commitment to creating sustainable, healthy, energy efficient environments in homes and buildings.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. This innovative timber building provides an uplifting environment for learning; an economic community asset and a sustainable solution to the provision of tertiary education facilities.
Design: MSDL. This building is equipped with a geothermal heating and cooling system, a high-performance thermal envelope, triple-pane windows, and an approximately 800 sqm green roof.
The House of Lords ‘Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment’ announce a strong statement to the Government to reinstate the Zero Carbon new homes standard.
Architect: LINK architects. The Lersch family bought the dilapidated farmhouse shortly after the millennium and were keen to preserve the historic building, intending to restore one of the last historic farmsteads, prominent in the area in the early 1900s.
Design: Francisco Rocha, Architect – “Due to the lack of conditions for the cruises in the valley and the increase of tourists the quality of living in the area seems to be drastically declining.”
Design: Patrice Bideau, Architect. It was through searching the web for information on passive buildings with arched roofs that the project manager chose an architect who also aims to create healthy living conditions in a natural environment.
Architect: Lund Hagem Architects. The lower level is without a sea view, but protected from the winds. Restrictions on the site included a cabin ad two rock levels: the zigzag shaped summerhouse connects the rock formations.
The first phase of PDP London’s zero-carbon, high quality housing development for Choice Housing in Carryduff, south east Belfast, is now complete.
Climate deal reached in Paris. Over 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions are buildings-related, and emissions could double by 2050 if we don’t change. Cooperative climate action is essential to keep the global average temperature rise below 2°C degrees.
The Architecture of Necessity is an international triennial for sustainable community building. Entries can be buildings or city and community planning projects of all sizes.