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.

Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan

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Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has completed the first phase of the Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan, a comprehensive vision for helping the City of Chicago reach its carbon reduction goals in the downtown Loop

O’ Mighty Green, Eco Buildings, Green Wash

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O’ Mighty Green Project, Eco Buildings, Green Wash, Project, Design, Images O’ Mighty Green : Greenwash Greenwash Project – by STAR strategies + architecture 9 Jun 2011 O’ Mighty Green STAR strategies + architecture Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (…) saviour of … Read more

Green Lighthouse Copenhagen, Christensen&Co

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Green Lighthouse, Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building, is a faculty building at the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The building has multiple purposes including teaching facilities, student advisory, administration and faculty lounge.

Passivhaus Housing Scheme Herefordshire

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Architype has submitted a planning application for the UK’s largest Passivhaus housing scheme for a rural site, near to their Herefordshire office. The project is the first stage in realising an ambitious vision to transform both the quality and the sustainability of developer housing in the UK

Integer House BRE Watford, Hertfordshire

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Integer House Hertfordshire, BRE Watford Building, Solar PV Glazing , The Smart Home Photos The Smart Home at BRE Watford Sustainable English Home, Innovation Park, UK – Transparent Solar PV Glazing by Polysolar 16 Nov 2013 Location: BRE site, Watford, Hertfordshire, southeast England The Smart Home, Building Research Establishment (BRE) Innovation Park Back to the … Read more

Experimental Solar Building Lausanne

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Experimental Solar Building - Lausanne

The experimental solar building LESO of the ” Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ” built in 1982 constitutes one of the main research tools of the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory

Deepstone: Low Energy House Scotland

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Deepstone: Low Energy House Scotland

The house is located on a spectacular site overlooking the Solway Firth in south west Scotland. The site is a steeply sloping, former quarry in a National Scenic Area which slopes steeply in two directions from the quarry base which forms the only level ground access.

Roofscape Retrofit, London Carbon Reduction

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The UK government has set an ambitious and necessary target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. The carbon footprint of buildings is the source of over 50% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK (DCLG)

Westminster Sustainable Buildings London

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Experts in design and conservation, as well as residents and developers will be discussing how to make older buildings more sustainable in a workshop aimed at helping to make Westminster’s buildings more environmentally friendly.

Green Architecture for the Future, Louisiana

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The exhibition Green Architecture for the Future elucidates the relationship between architecture and society and the vast field mapped out by discussions of sustainability, with its whole range of challenges.

London Array Wind Farm Substation Design News

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UK-based international architectural practice RMJM has provided the architectural concept design for a new onshore substation for London Array, the largest consented offshore wind farm in Europe.