Articles Posted in the Design & Architecture Category
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Botanica: a “living machine” for cleaning indoor air
Indoor air in offices or homes can often be far more polluted than outdoor air. These pollutants can result from a variety of common sources: from mold, off-gassing building materials, combustion sources like kerosene, gas…
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Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza, Rwanda by Sharon Davis Design
Women for Women International, a Washington DC based non-profit which seeks to empower female survivors of war and genocide, commissioned Sharon Davis Design to build an educational campus in rural Rwanda in late 2008. Image…
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BDP selected to design low-carbon Essex Business School
BDP’s interdisciplinary team has been selected to design the £14M Essex Business School at the University of Essex’s Colchester Campus. The new building will be zero-carbon as part of the school’s ethos to lead the…
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Sustainable, custom-made energy concept for villa proposal
For a private house situated within stunning scenery of Barneveld in the Netherlands, Amsterdam-based practice studioninedots has proposed a villa design inspired by the monastries that once graced the area. Villa Groothof is situated in…
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Montreal’s Centre for Sustainable Development opens its doors
The Centre for Sustainable Development, the first commercial building in the downtown core of a major Canadian city to seek LEED Platinum certification in the category of new construction, was inaugurated at the end of…
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Top grades for Passivhaus school
Earlier this week, sustain’ attended the UK Passivhaus Conference at the Barbican in London. We were impressed with the level of enthusiasm, the quality of debate and really pleased to see presentations on some exceptional…
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Community consultation and sustainable materials adapted to Far Northern conditions are key to Research Centre success
Architect FGMDA has worked for more than 30 years in the Far North in collaboration with local populations. It has recently designed a new Community Science Centre at the western gateway to Nunavik in Canada…
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Housing: why flexible design solutions & adaptability must be the future
A highly energy efficient townhouse with a flexible layout won the Future Homes category of this year’s British Homes Awards. Architects Alex King of Designalexable and Edward King (retired) picked up their award for the…
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Beauty of wood: The Rothschild Foundation crowned supreme at this year’s Wood Awards
The Rothschild Foundation in Buckinghamshire stole the show and the top award in this year’s Wood Awards competition. Stephen Marshall Architects saw off competition of an exceptionally high standard to win the Structural category, before…
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Sustainability in the frame: pioneering new Master Film Store for British Film Institute
This autumn, the British Film Institute (BFI) has reached a major milestone in its long history of preserving the nation’s film heritage. The pioneering new building is ready to house the BFI’s entire master collection…
