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Redefining Commercial Spaces: Trends in Modern Workplace Design

The Architecture Designs

Incorporating elements like natural lighting, indoor plants, water features, and materials that mimic natural textures can reduce stress, enhance creativity, and improve air quality. This encompasses the physical safety of the construction process and the long-term well-being of the building’s occupants.

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Back to Basics: Bioclimatic Design, Learning from History to Build For The Future

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Its distinctive design promotes user interaction, features a green corridor for temperature regulation and incorporates a rainwater collection system for sustainable irrigation. Similarly, thermal mass, a foundational concept of bioclimatic architecture, refers to the ability of a material to absorb, store and later release heat.

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BEEAH Headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

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m BEEAH Headquarters has sustainability at its core with a high percentage of locally procured materials and is equipped with future-ready technologies to enable operations at LEED Platinum standards with net-zero emissions and minimal energy consumption. The 9,000 sq. Source by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photo © Hufton+Crow.

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

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This reduces the need for building demolition and the amount of waste produced in building construction.” Reusing a building and altering its functionality lessens the need for new builds, and with fewer construction materials the impact of embodied carbon is reduced.

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Checking in to Meliá Frankfurt City – a hotel that means business

Hotel Designs

What we can agree on, though, is the building’s eco rating. The innovative hotel is exactly that; smart and savvy with sophisticated and hidden energy system and a cutting-edge, self-regulating temperature concept.

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Building automation systems: All you need to know about intelligent buildings

Building and Interiors

The lighting can be regulated (turned on, off, or dimmed) with smart home automation and building automation system. The motion sensor light switches detect occupancy in the space and regulate the lights in the room. Famous brands that offer smart lighting are: Jaquar lighting. In fact, it is just the beginning.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Right: Public Farm 1, a 2008 installation on the grounds of Long Island City’s MoMA PS1 by Amale Andraos’s firm, WORKac; the museum described the installation as “a living structure made from inexpensive and sustainable materials recyclable after its use at PS1”; images via MoMA PS1 and Archinect. Amale Andraos. Gabriela Carillo.