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

Architizer

In an era where the health of our planet is more critical than ever, embracing sustainability in our architectural projects isn’t just beneficial — it’s essential. Amidst the pressing challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, the call for sustainable practices has never been louder.

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Architects Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

Architizer

In an era where the health of our planet is more critical than ever, embracing sustainability in our architectural projects isn’t just beneficial — it’s essential. Amidst the pressing challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, the call for sustainable practices has never been louder.

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Eco-Friendly Wood Paint: Revealing Its Beauty and Sustainability

Architecture Ideas

It is a paint manufactured from natural and sustainable resources that is devoid of dangerous chemicals. For one thing, it encourages sustainability by utilising foods produced responsibly. Apply the paint evenly and thinly, providing extra drying time between layers as directed by the manufacturer.

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BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as "living curriculum" at University of Kansas

Deezen

The 50,000-square-foot educational building will have a diagrid structure made completely from wood, a feat achieved through the use of notched glued laminated timber ( glulam ) and dowels based on traditional Japanese joinery techniques to eliminate the need for steel fasteners or plates.

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Product watch: Shinnoki from James Latham

Hotel Designs

Manufactured with a real wood veneer, bonded to a 100 per cent sustainable MDF core, the pre-finished boards are manufactured with the highest levels of care, craftsmanship and attention to detail. No longer is hand treatment the only way to achieve the perfect finish on wood panels. Shinnoki 4.0 Shinnoki 4.0

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Colour highlights the crinkled surfaces of Pao Hui Kao's paper furniture

Deezen

Kao applies colour pigments and Urushi lacquer to the works Kao recently developed a technique of coating her paper structures with colour pigments and Urushi, a type of Japanese lacquer, to highlight the crinkled surfaces. In time, she learned to appreciate the sustainability and health benefits of working with natural, non-toxic materials.

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Sagrada Familia shows stone "can return to being used as a structural material"

Deezen

It can also transform the construction process and result in a structure that combines natural materials, traditional craftsmanship and digitally driven manufacturing to provide a building that people can better relate to, that provides greater pleasure and wellbeing." Top: engineer Tristram Carfrae is a proponent of structural stone. "But

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