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With a name like Unique, you’d hope that designers Carlos Zapata Studio and Uribe Schwarzkopf’s recently completed tower would offer something a little different from the norm. Thankfully it delivers with a curving facade that’s planted with trees and … Continue reading Unique tower makes space for meeting in the middle
Following a collaboration with Aston Martin to offer car-themed luxury homes, British Ghanian architect Sir David Adjaye’s firm has unveiled an interesting new project that takes the form of a collection of granaries. The Thabo Mbeki Presidential Libra… Continue reading Sir David Adjaye’s sustainable library will be partially built from mud
Following the popularity of Stefano Boeri Architetti’s greenery-covered Bosco Verticale, similar “Vertical Forest” buildings are now taking root around the world, helping to add more plants and trees to inner-city areas. Two of these are now rising in … Continue reading Stefano Boeri’s greenery-covered buildings blossom in China
Following an architecture competition, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has been commissioned to design a new student center for Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland. Named The Village, it’s conceived as an oversized living room and will consist o… Continue reading BIG goes back to school with sustainable Village
Following its energy-positive Powerhouse Brattørkaia last year, Snøhetta has completed another remarkably sustainable office in Norway in the same vein. Named Powerhouse Telemark, the firm calculates the building will produce more energy than it will r… Continue reading Snøhetta designs energy-positive Powerhouse office
Netherlands-based firm ZJA drew on a lost coastal dune landscape for inspiration with its mixed-use hotel and casino in Middelkerke, Belgium. The project will overlook the North Sea and is envisioned as an artificial sand dune, with a “boulder-like” ho… Continue reading Boulder-like hotel to rise over artificial sand dune casino
The Great Barrier Reef isn’t in the best of shape to say the least, so in an attempt to help secure the longterm future of its corals and other corals worldwide, Contreras Earl Architecture has unveiled what it calls the world’s first dedicated coral c… Continue reading Sustainable “living ark” aims to secure the future of corals
Building with mud may bring to mind a simple shelter, but Anandaloy, by German architect Anna Heringer, shows that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. The project showcases the possibilities of building with mud and bamboo, and provides an impress… Continue reading Award-winning building shows possibilities of mud-based construction
Construction has begun on a new mixed-use office tower by Foster + Partners that will catch the eye with an unusual triangular shape. The building will also integrate greenery in the form of multiple terraces and a public garden area.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Foster + Partners packs greenery-filled terraces into triangular tower
Snøhetta’s vision for the Cheongju New City Hall will extend and modernize an existing city hall in South Korea. The project blends elements of traditional Korean design with sustainable features like natural ventilation, solar panels, and rainwater co… Continue reading Snøhetta’s city hall is a sustainable take on traditional Korean design