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- Live, work and shop at this green building in France Fri, 13 Aug 21, 2:30amThe Partenord Habitat Plot in the Porte de Valenciennes neighborhood in Lille, France, eliminates the idea of a pollution-creating commute to work. In this design, office space, housing and retail areas are all integrated...
- This nature-inspired substation shows the beauty of industrial design Fri, 19 Mar 21, 2:30amWhen you imagine beautiful architecture, you probably don't think of electricity substations. Who would? But the new Terna station created by Pierattelli Architetture recently won an award for its innovative design, which...
- Caf Terra is an urban oasis with raw earth surfaces in Dubai Thu, 4 Mar 21, 2:30amUnited Arab Emirates-based design studio Bone Architecture has recently completed its latest hospitality project: Café Terra, a courtyard-inspired eatery filled with plants in Dubai...
- Plant a unique indoor garden with this modular living wall kit from Horticus Fri, 23 Oct 20, 1:30amDesigned by Horticus, these modular living walls offer a stunning way to reconnect with nature by creating a vertical hanging garden indoors, no matter how small the space...
- Old coffee roastery to be reborn as a net-zero carbon office in London Fri, 21 Aug 20, 4:30amThe local planning council for London’s Vauxhall district has recently given the green light for an adaptive reuse scheme to transform a disused Costa Coffee roastery into a six-story, net-zero carbon office development...
- Recycled materials and traditional techniques define this farmstay in India Sat, 16 May 20, 1:30amAt the edge of the Sasan Gir wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, India, d6thD design studio has completed Aaranya, an agricultural farmstay that pays homage to the rural vernacular and Mother Nature...
- LEED Gold-targeted office mimics High Line via lush greenery Wed, 19 Feb 20, 6:30amNew York City’s award-winning High Line has attracted yet another sculptural building to its side — 512 West 22nd Street, a contemporary Chelsea office building that takes cues from the elevated park with landscaped terraces...
- Mud and recycled materials make up this sustainable Kerala home Wed, 1 May 19, 5:30amWhen Ramanujan Basha decided to build a modern, eco-friendly home in Kerala, he turned to Wallmakers, a local design practice with a decade’s worth of experience designing sustainable architecture...
- Samurai-inspired home keeps naturally cool in Melbourne Tue, 25 Sep 18, 4:30amDrawing on the client’s appreciation for Japanese architecture and culture, Australian architecture firm SG2 Design created the Samurai Duplex, a pair of townhouses that takes design cues from traditional samurai armor...
- Architects experiment with terracotta in the fight against climate change Wed, 27 Dec 17, 3:36amArchitects have drawn on terracotta for thousands of years - but are now exploring combating climate change with the ancient building material. Ceramicists, engineers, and architects converged on Buffalo this year for the...
- Brilliant zero-energy air conditioner in India is beautiful and functional Thu, 14 Sep 17, 6:30pmNew Delhi-based Ant Studio made a zero-electricity air conditioner to combat the brutally hot summers in India’s capital. Built for a DEKI Electronics factory, this low-tech, energy efficient, and artistic solution to the...
- BIGs looping station design in Paris turns bridge into public space Fri, 24 Mar 17, 7:03pmDanish firm Bjarke Ingels Group and French studio Silvio D'ascia Architecture unveiled new renderings of their competition-winning designs for a loop-shaped metro station in Paris...
- Pottery studio in Vietnam sheltered by a perforated cube of clay bricks Wed, 20 Jul 16, 3:00pmThe three-story building, inspired by traditional Vietnamese architecture and the surrounding ecology, is located next to Thu Bon river in Vietnam's Quang Nam Province...
- A pottery studio in Vietnam sheltered by a perforated cube of clay bricks Wed, 20 Jul 16, 3:00pmThe three-story building, inspired by traditional Vietnamese architecture and the surrounding ecology, is located next to Thu Bon river in Vietnam's Quang Nam Province...
- Terrapotta Army art installation gives reclaimed pots a new life Wed, 15 Jun 16, 8:14amIn Terrapotta Army, a population of long-lost terracotta pots invades an unsuspecting garden in the city center of Ghent, Belgium. With the help of Cultural Houses Ghent, Belgian designer Boomin Sep created this social installation...