Green infrastructures are popping out anywhere in the world today to address environmentalist’s call to save the environment. Joining for a competition in Paris, LAN Architects has created the double-skinned residential building. The double skin of the building is designed intended to help insulate the building, and photovoltaic cells are used to let the outer …
Category: Architecture
H_18 Home Design By Piero Ceratti
Designed by Italian Architect Piero Ceratti, the H_18 house design is a house design for a 50 square meter surface. Pretty small space but the Piero Ceratti was able to create an elegant and beautiful design that’s able to accommodate 4 person. If all houses are designed like this, we all have the chance to …
Old Cinema Turned Flagship Store
Old and used structures are normally destroyed. However, today it seems like this is not the trend already. With the desire to help save the environment, designers came up with refurbished structures. Studiometrico from Italy has just recently done this practice with an ole cinema in Milan wherein they turned it into a flagship store …
Recycled Abandoned Silos In Amsterdam
Wall or rock climbing enthusiast will definitely be delighted with the new recycled sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam that is now turned into a Climbing Gym. Proposed by NL Architects, the tower B of these incredible set of climbing towers will house a Srooftop restaurant, office space, salon, music studio, and a movie theater. With …
Harvest Green Project By Romses Architects
In order to address the climate change plans of Vancouver, Romses Architects has designed the Harvest Green Projects, which turns out to be the winning entry at the 2030 challenge competition in Vancouver. This sustainable building will be having various green facilities like vertical farming of vegetables, herbs, fruits, fish, egg laying chickens, and a …
Building Made From Recycled Kitchen Sink
If you think kitchen sinks are only for your contemporary kitchen, think a million times because 2012 Architechten has built the super sustainable building made entirely of kitchen sink. The community around this sustainable building uses it for cultural activities. In addition, this kitchen sink building also collects rainwater in tank and used for its …
The Reptile House: The Green House Of The Future
Green and eco-friendly house does not only limits to its building process and materials use. The concept itself can also be a great feature for a house to be eco-friendly. One great sample of that is the Cook+Fox house that is also called as the reptile house. It was being called this way because of …
Hangar Prefabs from Hangar Design Group
Prefabricated homes are in no doubt an efficient way of building way of building our homes. Its innovative way of building houses allows us to save huge amount of money and time. And this belief of ours was simply proved by the prefab houses created by the talented designers of Hangar Design Group. Two of …
Transbay Transit Center & Funicular Extravaganza Rendering
A rendering of the Transbay Transit was revealed and I was amazed not only of its excellent architectural design but with its aim to go green and meet the requirements of becoming an eco-friendly structure as well. It aims for a LEED gold certification and is not the usual enclosed transit station that everybody is …
The Eco-Friendly Five Star Hotel By Foster And Partners
Another energy efficient 5-star hotel has just recently approved by the London Mayor that will be erected near the Heathrow Airport, which is a one of a kind hotel in the area. Designed by Foster + Partners, this eco-friendly hotel will have all the amenities that you need including sustainability, energy efficiency, meeting facilities and …