Sustainable architecture
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Is ProxyAddress architecture’s answer to solving homelessness?
ProxyAddress founder Chris Hildrey talks to us about architecture changing the world, and his pioneering initiative to help solve homelessness
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Vinu Daniel on the glory of garbage in architecture and Chuzhi House
With an ethos of reuse and local sourcing, architect Vinu Daniel of Wallmakers is rewriting the rulebook for sustainable architecture and wins Best Earth Builder at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023
By Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar • Published
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Hive Earth leads the charge in contemporary building with earth
Hive Earth from Ghana is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Kéré Architecture’s Uganda community centre provides safety and opportunity
A Uganda community centre created by Kéré Architecture was designed with development in mind
By Martha Elliott • Published
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Studiomama shakes up urban planning with a micro-city in the heart of Milan
By Nargess Shahmamesh Banks • Last updated
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Steven Holl Architects' Rubenstein Commons building is a seasonal delight
Rubenstein Commons building in Princeton by Steven Holl Architects is designed with the seasons and academic excellence in mind
By Martha Elliott • Last updated
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Asif Khan and Biomason explore ecofriendly biocement
Asif Khan sifts through the options offered by Biomason’s biocement tiles to create the ‘Coral Reef’ shelving unit
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Architecture and design activism strives for a better future
Climate action, inclusion and diversity, and workers' rights are some of the critical fields covered by these dynamic architecture and design activism initiatives, networks, campaigns, and advocacy and support groups, working collectively towards positive change and a hopeful future
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Architecture for animals leads the way at this school for dogs
Details are designed with dogs in mind at Spain’s Educan School for Dogs, Humans and Other Species
By Hannah Silver • Published
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Trakt Forest Hotel allows guests to float among the trees
Trakt Forest Hotel by Wingårdhs is an architectural, yet gentle Swedish hospitality venture that respects its forested Småland context
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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This family home marries natural materials with a sustainability focus
Woodlands, a five-bedroom family house, is built on the site of a 1920s chalet bungalow
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Tara Gbolade is a sustainability-minded emerging architect to watch
The world is changing, architecture is adapting, and a new wave of young practices in London is emerging. They are armed with bold ideas, digital tools, new studio set ups and innovative design approaches. In our Next Generation series, join us in hailing these exciting studios from the UK capital through an ongoing series of weekly profiles. First in line is Tara Gbolade, the dynamic director of sustainability-minded Gbolade Design Studio.
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Earth brick barn house is Yinka Shonibare’s hub of creativity in Nigeria
Yinka Shonibare’s new artists’ residency space, Ecology Green Farm, in a remote part of Nigeria, offers a lush landscape for cultural and creative discovery
By Ijeoma Ndukwe • Last updated
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Need-to-know technology news from Salone del Mobile 2018
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Eco-visionaries to the rescue at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London explores the precarious relationship between humans and nature that has been thrown out of balance by our accumulatively dangerous activities. Architects, artists and designers offer up their unique approaches into a laboratory of prototypes, concepts and emotive pieces that break down headlines into experiences.
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Seratech’s innovative sustainable cement wins Obel award 2022
The 2022 Obel Award goes to Seratech’s carbon-neutral composite cement
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Wallmakers’ sustainable architecture scoops Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
Indian architecture studio Wallmakers and its founder, Vinu Daniel, are crowned winners of the prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Elephant World wins Best Sanctuary: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
Including exhibition space set amid courtyards and pools, the Elephant World's architecture nods to both human and elephant needs; all, to a design by Boonserm Premthada's Bangkok Project Studio in Thailand
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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The World Around Summit 2022 takes us across the globe through architectural debate
We checked out The World Around Summit 2022, and offer you the highlights of some of the most current and timely debates in the architecture world
By Shukri Sultan • Last updated
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Jared Della Valle's eco family retreat is in tune with the landscape
A minimalist, eco-friendly house overlooking the idyllic Hudson River Valley is the country home of New York based Alloy's principle, architect and developer Jared Della Valle
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Snøhetta unveils ultra-sustainable workspace in Norway
Powerhouse Telemark – an environmentally smart office building – is the latest addition to Snøhetta's growing portfolio of sustainable architecture
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Inside an apartment at Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale towers
Explore this penthouse by Dara Huang at Design Haus Liberty and COIMA Image, at architect Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale towers in Milan's Porta Nuova district
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Counterspace's Sumayya Vally on her Serpentine Pavilion
Counterspace is the fast-emerging South African architectural practice commissioned to create the latest Serpentine Pavilion in London. Here, its founder Sumayya Vally takes artist and photographer Mikhael Subotzky on a whistle-stop tour of their adopted hometown, Johannesburg
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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SOM's carbon-negative architecture model unveiled during COP26
SOM reveals a model for carbon-negative architecture, the ‘Urban Sequoia’, during COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Rainwater-harvesting architecture leads this Mexican home
The Rain Harvest Home by Javier Sanchez of JSa architects and Robert Hutchison of Robert Hutchison Architecture in Mexico combines style and sustainability
By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated
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Explore a sustainable skincare village in Parma, Italy
Davines Village in Parma, Italy is an experiment in truly sustainable beauty production
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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Piuarch's innovative urban gardening kit
Milan studio Piuarch moves from green roofs to a multipurpose module for city dwellers, offering planting, workstation and wellness space in one
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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