The Elements House in Hampshire, UK
Located in Hampshire within close proximity to the River Hamble, this remarkable new-build family home provides substantial entertainment space, designed by local architects AR Design Studio.
Sustainable building designs
Sustainable building designs and architects
e-architect select sustainable building designs and eco design projects around the world. Discover green architecture projects news and pictures of the best new sustainable buildings globally. Find zero-carbon and low carbon properties by respected eco designers and architects.
Home for Life in Lystrup, Denmark
Home for Life is designed as the world’s first Active House and is the result of an interdisciplinary development process. The sustainable single-family house is a CO2 neutral demonstration project and is designed to produce more energy than it consumes
Tyvek Warehome GrandDesigns CaseStudy
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.
Coachella Valley High School in Thermall, California
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.
Storkeengen Randers, Stork Meadow
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.
World’s Tallest Timber Building, Norway
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.
Citu Home in Leeds, Sustainable Buildings
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.
Building Climate Control Design
“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.
SXSW Headquarters in Austin Texas
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.
Biological House in Middelfart, Denmark eco home
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.
Blue Building in Madrid, Alcobendas property
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.
Smart Home in Melbourne: renovation
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.
Large Sustainable Office Development Leeds
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.
Hampshire Passivhaus, self-build home England
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.