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Henriquez Partners Architects Creates Inclusive and Sustainable Residential Tower Community

Architizer

The building’s design is respectful of the special character of the area, and the project animates the West End’s public realm with a ground-oriented landscape design, and public art that references the site’s local history and geography. How did the context of your project — environmental, social or cultural — influence your design?

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IMK Architects Develops Sustainable Natural Holistic Environment for IIT Bombay Student Housing

Architizer

Additionally, the design brief entailed the buildings to be Carbon-Zero and GRIHA qualified. How important was sustainability as a design criteria as you worked on this project? . Sustainability was a crucial criteria. © IMK Architects. © IMK Architects. IIT Bombay Student Housing Gallery.

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A Singapore Home Forgoes Air Conditioning (and Windows) to Take Living With Nature to an Extreme

Dwell

In their design brief, the couple asked for "a house that breathes naturally," with spaces that are naturally ventilated and varied: cold and warm, light and dark, raw and crafted, private and public, playful and serious, strong and delicate. Neutra Doubles Its Living Space by Looking in the Unused Backyard

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Importing the French snow scene into Bangkok

Habitus Living

The design brief for Snow House was simple: to design a home that honours the French snow scene and comprises sustainable elements, to maximise the restoration of natural features. In contrast to Bangkok’s dense urban environment, Snow House provides respite from its surrounding context.

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Architonic projects of the year 2023: Commercial | News | Architonic

Architonic

As this list of Architonic’s most popular new commercial spaces shows, the use of environmental materials, sustainable building practices and spaces that integrate themselves and their visitors with the serenity and balance of the natural world around them, are all key features common in contemporary design briefs.

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Winning was "immensely rewarding and almost surreal" say past Designers of the Year winner

Deezen

"Over the last five years, we have re-formed how we work to bring planetary health to the top of our design process," added the studio. This has led to the development of new skills needed to inform our process and respond to the changing nature of the design brief."

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Gabion Walls Made of Volcanic Rock Flank a Flat-Roofed Farmhouse in Australia

Dwell

We asked ourselves how our clients could live on this land in a modern but thoughtful way, what a modern farm and farmhouse should and could look like, and how we could integrate the building into a site that has been cleared of its bushland.

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