Sustainability

Joseph Mercer suggests creating more “feral” London green belt

July 23, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Royal College of Art graduate Joseph Mercer has proposed building Netherlands-style greenhouses on London’s green belt to intensify food production and allow farmland to be returned to a wilder natural state. Mercer envisions building a series of greenhouses on the Metropolitan Green Belt, a band of countryside that runs around London to control urban growth. As

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Sam Coulton designs environmentally friendly cemetery that would slowly dye London blue

July 13, 2018 India Block 0

Bartlett School of Architecture student Sam Coulton has designed a concept for a sustainable alternative to cremation to help Londoners confront death. Called London Physic Gardens: A New London Necropolis, Coulton’s proposal, which he created on his MAarch course at the Bartlett, involves building a new city of the dead where Chelsea’s pleasure gardens once stood. Here,

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Miró Rivera Architects designs Hill Country House as sustainable prototype in rural Texas

July 12, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Texas firm Miró Rivera Architects has built a partially off-grid house with a jagged roofline, as a prototype for a sustainable community in the countryside. Miro Rivera Architects designed the Hill Country House for a very rural setting. It is independent of the municipal water supply, and provides its own heating and cooling via a geothermal

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Foster + Partners to masterplan new sustainable city in India

May 15, 2018 India Block 0

Foster + Partners is masterplanning the new state capital of Andhra Pradesh in India, which will centre on a governmental building with a needle-like roof. Set on the banks of River Krishna, the new city of Amaravati will cover 217 square kilometres and is set to be one of the most sustainable cities in the world, according

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Apple now operating on 100 per cent renewable energy

April 10, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Renewable energy is now used to power all of Apple’s retail stores, offices and data centres in 43 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, China and India. Although not all of its facilities are connected to clean energy directly in some cases, the company is placing renewables back into the grid to offset

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DoepelStrijkers applies circular economy principles to Circl pavilion

March 25, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch studio DoepelStrijkers incorporated a variety of innovative sustainable concepts into this multipurpose space at the offices of a bank in Amsterdam. The Circl pavilion occupies the lower floors of Dutch banking group ABN AMRO’s corporate headquarters. The interior, by Rotterdam studio DoepelStrijkers, employs the principles of a circular economy, in which materials are continually reused and

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Hawaiian house by LifeEdited harvests more energy and water than it consumes

March 13, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Design consultancy LifeEdited has built a family home on Hawaiian island Maui, as a model for sustainable, off-grid living. The LifeEdited: Maui residence was completed last year to showcase methods of constructing, furnishing and running a house with as little environmental impact as possible. The black building is entirely self-sufficient, boasting a combination of design and technology

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Haptic and Nordic to build “sustainable city of the future” at Oslo airport

March 8, 2018 India Block 0

Haptic Architects and Nordic Office of Architecture have released plans for a city next to Oslo Airport that is to be completely powered by self-produced energy and served by driverless electric vehicles. The practices are masterplanning Oslo Airport City (OAC) for a 370-hectare site beside the airport – which was recently extended by Nordic Office of

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KAW’s ActiveHouse is a sustainable home that generates more energy than it consumes

March 1, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch studio KAW employed a range of technical and architectural concepts to minimise the environmental impact of this house in Rotterdam, including introducing large windows into its brick facades to promote natural light and passive heating. The ActiveHouse property is the home of Reimar von Meding, a partner at KAW, who wanted to demonstrate how sustainable principles

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Snøhetta unveils plans for “energy-positive” Arctic Circle hotel

February 12, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Snøhetta has revealed plans for a sustainable ring-shaped hotel, that will be nestled at the base of Norway’s Almlifjellet mountain, within the Artic Circle. The architecture firm claims that Svart Hotel, which takes its name from the nearby Svartisen glacier, will be energy-positive – meaning it will produce more energy than it consumes. While consumption rates

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