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Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material

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Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. If Architizer’s Sustainable Practice series has taught us anything, it’s that environmentally friendly buildings often take us back to basics in terms of resources. They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials.

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Philippe Block on Sustainable Construction: “Building Technique Is More Important Than Materials”

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The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. The plates, of course, use the most sustainable concrete available on the market. Order your copy today. Wood is good, concrete is bad.

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London’s MONC champions sustainable design with its mountain-inspired interiors

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Eco-conscious eyewear brand Monc celebrates the rocky landscapes of the Italian Dolomites with biodegradable and salvaged materials at its new London store on Chiltern Street. Balenciaga’s Raw Architecture concept has arrived on London’s New Bond Street. The Monc Marylebone shop is designed by London-based studio Nina + Co.

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Sustainable Practice: The Miller Hull Partnership’s “Regenerative Porch”

Architizer

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Between climate change and increasingly extreme weather conditions, this charge also encompasses more sustainable and resilient design. These ideas are shown on display both inside and out, from the massing to material choices like mass timber.

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7 Formidable Sustainable Firms Dynamically Disrupting the Architectural Status Quo

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The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Sustainability has become something of a buzzword in the industry. Order your copy today.

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?Sustainable festival architecture in practice -- Sziget Colosseum by Hello Wood

Archinect

Innovative sustainability solutions are often born from the most evident ideas. Hello Wood, an internationally renowned architectural firm, was inspired by the pallets lying around the Sziget Festival to create the Colosseum using this unusual material.

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Sustainable Interior Design: 6 Thought-Provoking Projects Prioritizing the Planet

Architizer

Renewable and eco-friendly materials like recycled metal and low-VOC paints can improve indoor air quality, while passive design strategies optimize natural light and ventilation. Crafted from 90% salvaged materials, the space is a rich patchwork of texture and color. Rather, the past life of each material becomes imbued in the space.