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Architects’ Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

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Every step toward sustainability, no matter how small, contributes to a larger impact on our environment and communities. From maximizing energy efficiency to choosing sustainable materials and ensuring ethical construction practices, these strategies are designed to help professionals make the most of available resources.

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Architects Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

Architizer

Every step toward sustainability, no matter how small, contributes to a larger impact on our environment and communities. From maximizing energy efficiency to choosing sustainable materials and ensuring ethical construction practices, these strategies are designed to help professionals make the most of available resources.

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Mansion XĂšN Restaurant, Chengdu, China

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In Zumthor’s book “Atmospheres: Architectural Environments, Surrounding Objects,” he emphasizes that “atmosphere” is a responsive interaction between the user and the space. The construction of the poetic environment. Life’s flavors are seamlessly integrated into these poetic environments.

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The "enormously important" hidden carbon impacts of getting mass timber wrong

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The standard method for determining a building's overall carbon footprint is a whole-building life-cycle assessment (LCA) that breaks down emissions at every stage – from the sourcing of raw materials to their ultimate disposal. Not just for the built environment but also to ensure forests are sustainably managed." "But

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10 Danish designs made from new technologies and traditional crafts

Deezen

As part of our Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2022 collaboration, we've rounded up the work of 10 Danish designers, including three-dimensional knitted objects and a sculpture coloured by pigments made from found materials. The seat is informed by music, in which the ample spaces between the planks represent pauses in musical scores.

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Ten architecture projects by students at Heriot-Watt University

Deezen

"Strategically placed within the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS), the programme draws expertise from multiple disciplines associated with the built environment. Students make informed decisions and understand their impact, towards becoming creative learners, thinkers and researchers.

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6 Rousing Retail Spaces That Subvert the Shopping Experience

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Sign up for key information about the 12th Annual A+Awards, set to launch this fall. In the most reductive sense, retail structures are zones of transaction — environments that facilitate the sale of goods and services. Sign up for key information about the 12th Annual A+Awards, set to launch this fall.

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