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7 Formidable Sustainable Firms Dynamically Disrupting the Architectural Status Quo

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Sustainability has become something of a buzzword in the industry. In some instances, sustainability is employed as a marketing tool, reinforced by superficial practices with little environmental benefit. The team has even pledged to eliminate embodied carbon from every commercial interior space they design by 2030.

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Stockholm Wood City: Masterplanning The World’s Largest Timber Construction Project

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Spanning 60 acres and once complete, comprising around 7,000 commercial spaces and 2,000 homes, Wood City is currently the world’s largest urban timber construction project. That’s a tough goal — 2030 is not that far away, and so we needed to have an increased focus on sustainability. Who would want to live in the city?

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K64 Keflavík Airport Area Masterplan by KCAP wins the 2023 The Plan Award

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Sitting at the crossroads of Europe and North America, home to the Reykjanes UNESCO Global Geopark, the airport area is exceptionally well suited to become one of the leading developments for sustainable innovation in the aviation, energy and technology sectors.

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Hassell designs inflatable moon base for the European Space Agency

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Images is by Hassell Hassell added that the fact that the moon base masterplan is scalable means it's also more sustainable. The pods could house 144 people The lunar base was designed to be built near the edge of the Shackleton Crater at the South Lunar Pole, as the crater has the potential to hold frozen water.

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UNStudio uses 'carbon builder' tool to reduce footprint of Luxembourg office building

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Aiming to create a building with the "smallest possible carbon footprint", the studios implemented a hybrid construction approach of concrete and 100 per cent recycled steel, using a sustainable-design framework developed by UNStudio to calculate and monitor the building's carbon impact.

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RMJM RED has completed the award-winning ‘The Shenzhen Bay Innovation and Technology Centre’

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Located in the heart of Shenzhen’s High-Tech Park of Nanshan district, The Shenzhen Bay Innovation and Technology Centre has been designed as a national model for future developments. The post RMJM RED has completed the award-winning ‘The Shenzhen Bay Innovation and Technology Centre’ appeared first on RMJM.

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Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei, Will Meyer and Gray Davis named Dezeen Awards 2023 judges

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The eponymous practice has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, London and Dubai with work spanning hospitality, commercial and luxury residential design. Her work spans residential, commercial, cultural and public projects. He works at the junction of design and biotech – technology based on natural sciences.