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Curvaceous pair of towers mimics Malaysia’s dramatic topography

International design firm SPARK Architects recently completed a pair of condominium towers with rippling facades...

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Solar-powered Villa H is a modern glass-fronted home in the Dutch dunes

Natural materials converge in the beautiful, tailor-made Villa H (Villa Hupkes) tucked into Rotterdam’s dune...

Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti, SPG Headquarters, green renovation, office building, glass facade, Geneva, natural ventilation, green architecture, natural light, thermal insulation, acoustic insulation, Brise-soleil, LED lights

Naturally-ventilated glass building looks like a shimmering urban mirage

This office building in Geneva features a complex glass facade that makes it look like a shimmering urban mirage....

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Ekaterinensky Congress Center glows like a lantern on the Kuban River in Russia

The building combines orthogonal and curved surfaces with a glass curtain facade that follows the sinuous plan...

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Concrete brise soleil keeps this glass-enveloped building cool in sweltering Ghana

One Airport Square is a striking building featuring a very unique structure on its façade: a criss-crossing brise...

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How thousands of rough wooden logs protect this pavilion from solar radiation

The Uruguay Pavilion has been built with recycled and reused materials only, ready to be reclaimed once the Expo...

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Twisted Timber Shell Wraps Around a Parking Attendant’s Pavilion in France

Surrounded by a boring asphalt parking lot outside the city center, the wood structure stands out as a surprising...

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Li Xiadong’s Beautiful Wood Liyuan Library Wins the First Moriyama Prize

The library, which is located in the tiny village of Huairou, gives the local villagers a serene reading space...

Santiago Calatrava, Florida Polytechnic University, Innovation, Science, and Technology Building, green design, sustainable design, green architecture, sustainable architecture, florida, daylighting, green building, energy-efficient design, lakeland, solar shading, brise soleil, organic architecture, organic design

Santiago Calatrava’s Spectacular New Building is a Living, Moving Creature From Out of This World

That's not a futuristic spaceship or a sci-fi movie set - it's the latest building by world-renowned Spanish architect...

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Tiny 100% Solar-Powered Maison Reciprocity House Shines at the Solar Decathlon Europe

The home is based on designing row house neighborhoods that have a minimal environmental impact. Built as an affordable...

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MYCC Builds Gorgeous Prefab Wooden JP House in Just Five Days

JP House stands on a hill overlooking Tragacete, a municipality famous for a rich mimbre (wicker) culture and crafts....

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Santa Eugenia Social Housing Aptly Deals With an Unfortunate Solar Orientation

When Bailo Rull ADD+ took on this project, one of the main problems they had to solve was how to design a social...

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London’s Energy-Efficient Jodrell Laboratory Houses the World’s Largest Fungi Collection

The Jodrell Laboratory extension, dubbed 'The Wolfson Wing', achieved a BREEAM 'Excellent' mark and was designed...

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Passive Bamboo Residence Keeps Cool With Pixelated Green Brise Soleil Facade

Along with Group 8’s Coral House, the Bamboo residence was part of a plan to redesign the former industrial neighborhood...

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Juergen H Mayer Architekten Complete Beautiful Organic Apartment Complex in Berlin

J. MAYER H. Architekten is putting the finishing touches on a new sustainable residential infill in Berlin just...

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Monconseil Sports Hall is a Luminous Naturally Daylit Gymnasium in France

The long building serves as a venue for sports that include like basketball, handball, volleyball and gymnastics...

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Barcelona’s Beautiful Martinet School Boasts a Sun-Shielding Ceramic Facade

The building features a beautiful ceramic tile façade that shields the southern corridors, providing passive protection...

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Torre Plaça Europa: Social Housing in Barcelona Made With 100% Recyclable Materials

R+B Arqts had five innovation criteria in mind while designing this social housing project. First, they wanted...

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Green-Roofed Sebrae HQ Harnesses Passive Design to Keep its Cool in Brazil

The office building is deceptively simple from a distance, appearing as a 3-story vertical grid of screened windows...

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Wave-Shaped Aragon Convention Center is Flooded With Daylight

The Convention Center of Aragon is a dynamic multi-use space that was designed to serve a variety of functions...

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Prickly Porcupine Office Cleared for Construction

Passive solar design meets pointillist pincushion in this stunning porcupine-inspired office recently cleared for...

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3HLD’s Marvelous “Bandaged” Medical Center

Zagreb-based 3HLD has just won an international closed competition to design a new private medical center in the...

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