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

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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. By selecting locally produced materials, you reduce transportation costs and emissions and you also support the local economy.

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Architects Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

Architizer

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. By selecting locally produced materials, you reduce transportation costs and emissions and you also support the local economy.

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Let's build toward a circular economy

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In the simplest sense, a circular economy is an approach to material lifecycle management guided by three principles: eliminate waste, keep materials in circulation for as long as possible, and regenerate natural systems. I’m so excited for organizations to see the value that comes from a proper, streamlined deconstruction.

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Let's build towards a circular economy

BD+C

In the simplest sense, a circular economy is an approach to material lifecycle management guided by three principles: eliminate waste, keep materials in circulation for as long as possible, and regenerate natural systems. I’m so excited for organizations to see the value that comes from a proper, streamlined deconstruction.

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Mansion XĂšN Restaurant, Chengdu, China

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The visual experience emanates warmth akin to sitting by a cozy fireplace, complemented by the ambiance crafted through noble and elegant materials. A poetic space Mansion XĂšN utilizes rich materials such as stone, metal, and textured paint to cultivate a precious and elegant Chinese style, while also simplifying it with modern techniques.

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Against the Grain: 7 Intricate Interiors That Transform Timber Tectonics

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Timber is a building material as old as time — its storied grain connects us to the ancient longhouses of our ancestors and their early settlements forged from wattle and daub. Surreal in its proportions, the vaulted communal space is framed by a skeleton of trusses inspired by traditional shipbuilding techniques.

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8 Ways Architects Served Up Spectacular Hospitality Spaces in 2022

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Playing With Perforated Materials Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove by GOA (Group of Architects) , Suzhou, China Jury Winner and Popular Choice Winner, 10 th Annual A+Awards, Restaurants (L >1000 sq ft) A nearby grove of metasequoia trees influenced the striking design of this restaurant in Shanwan Village, just west of Shanghai.

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