Architizer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the technological building systems we choose for our projects to considering the carbon impact of where a product comes from to have a better awareness of the materials our products are made out of. While many sectors are charging forward, the field of materials is rapidly progressing and reshaping how we approach design specifications.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. Architects: Want to have your project featured? Bridges are both physical and metaphorical.

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Archinect

APRIL 5, 2024

Responding to the theme of ‘Rethinking Home — Adapt and Reuse,’ entrants were asked to create new homes using recycled materials and/or retrofitting existing structures. The contest is aimed at designing solutions to help address the UK's housing shortage within the context of climate change.

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Architizer

APRIL 22, 2024

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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Architizer

APRIL 22, 2024

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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Several communities worldwide don’t necessarily have the same access to new-age materials, construction techniques or the funds to actualize these grand visions. Given that the site is located in paddy fields in the mountains there, the structure is built using layers of walls to adapt to the topography. Panyaden School.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Between climate change and increasingly extreme weather conditions, this charge also encompasses more sustainable and resilient design. These ideas are shown on display both inside and out, from the massing to material choices like mass timber. Located in the heart of Atlanta, The Kendeda Building was designed to make a statement.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

Mass-timber products, such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glued laminated timber (glulam), are growing in popularity in architecture as they can offer a low-carbon alternative to commonplace materials including steel and concrete. The 100-metre-tall tower will have a timber core and load-bearing structure.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 8, 2024

Image © vincentcallebaut architectures In this nomadic vision of new sporting and cultural practices, it is no longer the supporters who go to obsolete stadiums but sustainable and ecological stadiums that go to the supporters. Long live sustainable sport, respectful of the planet, humanity and biodiversity!

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

The urgency to address the pressing issues of climate change, social inequalities and the need for sustainable, resilient and livable communities is more evident than ever. This new movement, also known as Modernism, sought to address these issues by embracing new materials, technologies and, most importantly, new design principles.

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BD+C

MARCH 20, 2023

3 ways prefabrication doubles as a sustainability strategy 0 qpurcell Mon, 03/20/2023 - 11:09 Modular Building Corie Baker, AIA, shares three modular Gresham Smith projects that found sustainability benefits from the use of prefabrication. Utilizing Prefabrication as a Sustainability Strategy 1.

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Deezen

AUGUST 17, 2023

Dutch architecture studio Overtreders W has created Stable Stack, a temporary cabin hotel built using straps and borrowed materials, in Veenhuizen, the Netherlands. Stable Stack showcases the beautiful possibilities that the combination of craftsmanship and sustainable handling of materials can offer."

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Architizer

AUGUST 22, 2022

Their design responds to the Grade I-listed landscape, with sustainable materials and traditional craft techniques creating simple, functional forms. All are made from sustainable timber, barring the flagship Horseshoe Kiosk, which is clad in tubular brass, mirroring the ornate metals of the nearby Queen Victoria Memorial.

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Architizer

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, truly great architecture has always understood the importance of ‘sustainable practice.’ More so, it uses flora as an intervention within the structure itself, “allowing the landscape elements to significantly infiltrate the home’s interior, defining the old cliche of bringing the outdoors indoors.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history. It's hugely demanding in terms of what we are asking from services and structure." The structure is the architecture," said Henderson.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Swedish studio White Arkitekter has been chosen to design the all-electric Velindre Cancer Centre in Wales, which will be built partly with low-carbon materials and follow circular economy principles. Designed as an "elegant, sustainable new cancer centre", the building is intended to have as little impact on the existing site as possible.

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DesignRulz

JULY 24, 2023

In the fast-paced architecture world, wherein buildings rise and cities expand rapidly, enforcing sustainable practices must be prioritized. However, a sustainable building goes beyond bricks and mortar. Architects are pivotal in executing these sustainable routines, affecting how buildings are designed, built, and utilized.

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Hotel Designs

MAY 4, 2023

Situated within Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site and opening by Q4 2023, The Chedi Hegra will offer 35 bespoke guestrooms, each with its own distinct connection to the Hegra landscape, a breath-taking testimony of human expression within the natural environment.

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Archinect

AUGUST 26, 2023

A new small library project on the northwest coast of Washington has garnered publicity thanks to its record-setting use of sustainable materials and the inspiring collaboration between Indigenous communities and non-Native architects who were indispensable in shaping its design.

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Habitus Living

JULY 16, 2023

Designed to embrace both tranquillity and sustainability, this home in inner-city Melbourne offers its owners a true place of shelter. In response to this vision, Ben Callery Architects embarked on a design journey that prioritised sustainable materials, carefully selected for their eco-friendly manufacturing processes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Constructed from structural timber, Waugh Thistleton Architects clad the exterior of the six-storey building in tulipwood timber louvres from the street level to the roof. Its foundation and lower ground floor were made from concrete, with the rest of the structure constructed from cross-laminated timber (CLT).

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2022

Sustainably-sourced timber has been used for the structure, cladding and interior of this mews home in Highgate, London , designed by local architect Russell Jones. The site previously held the garage and rear garden of an adjoining house, which informed the design of the new building. There is an external terrace and garden.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio and designer Zuzanna Skurka have created an installation at Milan design week from soft bio textiles made from surplus bricks. Rule one is, you should work with materials that are already there," studio founder Bonnie Hvillum told Dezeen in Milan. added Hvillum.

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Architizer

AUGUST 18, 2023

The changes won’t bring an end to this, but any firm that wants to do business in the economic union, no matter where their headquarters, now needs to prove sustainable sourcing of these materials and that products have not contributed to deforestation that occurred after 31st December 2020. Shor House by Measured Architecture Inc.,

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2022

Zaha Hadid Architects has officially ushered in what it says will become a “new benchmark for future workplaces” in the form of a brand new high-tech headquarters for the sustainably-minded BEEAH Group in Sharjah, UAE. Image © Hufton+Crow Image © Hufton+Crow Much like the city it inhabits, BEEAH is trying.

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2023

The six-story, 140,000-square-foot structure is the largest of seven buildings that now make up the Matrix Innovation Center, a site for scientists and entrepreneurs to develop sustainable solutions for current and future issues. In addition, its floors are made using prefabricated concrete slabs with no fixed connections.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The glulam structural system addresses ambitious sustainability goals, provides natural material warmth, and references the region’s timber legacy. Located adjacent to the revitalized Prairie Line Trail, the building is carefully sited to max.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

My intention was to design sustainable houses with biophilic interiors," said Štěpánová. The architecture of villas is deliberate with its thin and sharp lines in contrast to lush tropical vegetation, but the chosen materials and colors coincide perfectly with the surroundings."

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2023

Named Symbiotic Urban Furniture, the collection comprises benches, chairs, tables and other items that hook over, sit on and lean against steps, railings and other structural elements. The furniture will remain at this site with the intention of people using it for the foreseeable future.

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Archinect

MAY 27, 2022

Frank Lloyd Wright ’s iconic 87-year-old Fallingwater historic site is getting a very necessary modern upgrade according to a press release issued last month by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the organization responsible for its stewardship. Image courtesy Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC).

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Architizer

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For its 11th season, Architizer has created a suite of sustainability-focused A+Awards recognizing designers working toward a better future. However, in densely populated urban environments, there are rarely vacant plots to erect these projects; the existing structures must first be demolished to make way for what is to come.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

British architect Norman Foster explains his studio 's approach towards sustainability and his views on concrete, timber, aviation and Architects Declare in this exclusive interview. Foster said the studio, which is the UK's largest, aims to create buildings that are both sustainable and improve people's lives.

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Habitus Living

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Embodying the shared interests of founders Eliza Higgins and Cyrus Patell, the Debris Block House is “interested in evolving a language of contemporary architecture in India by challenging the typical assumptions/expectations of local materials and techniques in our practice,” as Patell explains.

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Bustler

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This design challenge asks for a fully self-sustaining eco village that will sit peacefully within the site and allow both humans and nature to share the same space and revolutionises the way we live - providing a fully independent and minimal impact lifestyle, while retaining the comforts and technologies of modern day life.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Photo by Staffan Andersson Eight gray shipping containers form the home, which perches on a rocky, forested site outside Stockholm. The site was an unsold lot where many had tried to build but none had succeeded," Tham says. There was a general ban on dynamite, and the lot’s grade has an almost sixty-foot difference.

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designboom

JANUARY 5, 2022

made of renewable materials, the timber structure was assembled on-site by a small team of local carpenters. The post arcgency’s ‘house on the hill’ is a sustainable addition to a school in rural denmark appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

LA-based Yazdani Studio has broken ground on the Resnick Sustainability Resource Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena that will incorporate mass timber. This will be achieved by means of a glazed wall that will wrap around the front facade of the structure at the north and west elevations.

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