Sustainability

Sustainability:

World Building of the Year 2017: the winner is a project for Guangming village

Architecture students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong updated traditional building technologies to support earth-quacked Guangming villagers to build anti-seismic and sustainable homes with affordable materials.

Post-earthquake reconstruction of Guangming – Courtesy of WAF 2017. The Chinese University of Hong Kong won the World Building of the Year Award with the post-earthquake reconstruction and demonstration project…

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1330 Brook Street - A modern and sustainable residence by Studio 804

The house in downtown Lawrence is the latest project completed by the graduate students participating in Studio 804's experience.

Photo ©Studio 804. 1330 Street house is the latest example of Studio 804’s mission to build creative sustainable housing in established, but marginal urban neighborhoods. 1330 Brook Street is convenient…

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Binh House in Vietnam merges foliage and concrete

Vo Trong Nghia Architects's Binh House brought tropical vegetation into Vietnamese urbanscape.

Binh House by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. All photos by Hiroyuki Oki, Quang Dam; courtesy of Vo Throng Nghia. Vo Trong Nghia’s Binh House reconnects Vietnamese growing urban environment with…

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Stefano Boeri’s first ‘Forest City’ is now under construction in Liuzhou, China

The project will take just three years to complete, with an opening scheduled for 2020.

All images courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti. Conceived as a green metropolis, the first Forest City project by Stefano Boeri will eventually accommodate 30,000 people, with offices, houses, hotels, hospitals,…

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Sustainability and hospitality design: Kengo Kuma eco-luxury hotel

The hotel will become a "green lung" for the neighborhood.

Image © Luxigon / Courtesy of Kengo Kuma + Associates. To be built above the railways in Paris’ rive gauche neighborhood, kengo kuma‘s ambitious "1Hotel Paris" project hopes to incorporate…

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Urban Rural – urban housing meets lush landscape in Istanbul

The American/Turkish firm designed an active façade to become a future landmark for the city.

Urban Rural is set to become a landmark for Istanbul. Image Courtesy of Eray Carbajo. The American/Turkish architecture firm Eray Carbajo has unveiled Urban Rural, a new typology of urban…

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