Masdar City Abu Dhabi Building
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
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.
New Istanbul Airport Building Design: Terminal
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.
BRE Partnership Sustainable Construction in Russia
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.
The Green House in Lejre, Frikøbing, Denmark
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.
Liuzhou Forest City Masterplan Design
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
The Light House in Lejre
Architect: Sigurd Larsen
The Light House is the second of Sigurd Larsen’s typologies to be developed in the area and consists of a simple plan arrangement that allow for low construction costs while offering generous living spaces.
The Shed: sustainable affordable living in city centres
Design concept to re-assess how vacant space can provide a sustainable approach to affordable living in city centres. A pod made of Smartply, lamb’s wool insulation, and recycled polycarbonate can be constructed in a single day to provide secure and sustainable accommodation in otherwise abandoned properties.
Biophilic Office Project at BRE, Watford
World first biophilic design research project connects buildings with nature: a live office refurbishment providing quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of office occupants.
Eco Bridge Design Competition in Seoul, Korea
Lithuanian architects’ proposal based on a simple concept: recreate the link that once existed with a spatial structure. The architectural design is “atmospherically reminiscent to a pictorial passage” through the two discontinued mountain peaks.
City of London Green Roofs, Sustainable Buildings
A programme to install green roofs in the City of London has wins at prestigious planning awards. Over 60 green roofs have been created in the Square Mile as part of a City of London programme to help address flood risk, mitigate climate change, improve biodiversity and provide new green spaces for people to enjoy.
House Annandale in Sydney
Day Bukh Architects believe that a green home’s success can be determined as a measure of receptiveness and contribution to its local and wider environment.
Wuxi Mansion of Canal
Evergrande awarded BREEAM ‘Very Good’ Certificate for this residential development located on the bank of the ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The project incorporates a large trade centre, a passenger transportation centre and metro hub.
SASSEUR Eco-tourist Village Chongqing City
Architects: HEIM Design. The Chongqing delegation to the National People’s Congress suggested that the city of Chongqing be the start of the Silk Road economic belt and the hub of a 21st century maritime Silk Road, connecting the Chinese interior with the rest of the world.
Sun Ship Freiburg, German Solar Settlement
“Solar Architecture is not about fashion – it is about survival”, Lord Norman Foster. “The sun doesn‘t send us a bill – the energy revolution is possible.” German journalist and activist Franz Alt