Net Lima: The Philippines’ First Green Building Project

Green architecture is now everywhere, which is a mere indication that saving the environment is getting the attention of the world. In the Philippines, one of the countries in South East Asia, Chad Oppenheim is selected to design the country’s first green building. Built under the country’s own green building rating system called BERDE or …

YAJ Architect’s Train Depot: The Train Depot Of The Future

Green architecture normally focuses on residential and commercial buildings like offices and the like. Today YAJ architects presented their proposal, an eco-friendly industrial building of the future. The Architects presented their Train Depot of the future that is designed to have almost zero energy performance. The train depot will make use of ground water heating …

Metal Recycling Plant: Prevents Your Metal Trashes From Harming The Environment

When we say eco-architecture, we immediately think of those pre-fab houses, buildings with solar cell roofs or façade, with windmill and more. Today eco-architecture do not limit to the materials used to complete the building anymore. More and more buildings are now built with eco-friendly purpose. The Metal Recycling plant by Dekleca Gregoric Arhitekti is …

Dusseldorf, Germany Condo: A Living Example Of Building Restoration

Green architecture is great, as it helps save the environment with the architects using eco-friendly building materials. However, isn’t it great to hear that people have started to show care to the environment through building restoration or reuse. A Condo in Dusseldorf, Germany by AABE Erpicum and Partners is just one of the living examples …

Sustainable Pavilion Built In Brussels

Built for the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition, the Sustainable Pavilion of beer crates by Architects SHSH is a pavilion built temporarily in Brussels, Belgium. Made from recycled beer crates, this sustainable pavilion has columns, arches, and even domes. Through this eco-architecture, landfills of beer crates will surely be minimized dramatically. Built …

Nassim Villas: Sustainable Home Designs By Zaha Hadid

Green architecture is becoming a trend nowadays. More and more architects and engineers designs with ecology in mind to show they care. Zaha Hadid is just a few of those who are into green architecture. The group’s latest projects are garden-filled homes that faces the Singapore Botanical Gardens called the Nassim Villas. Surrounded with greeneries, …

Recycled Books: Completes The Stylish Library Information Desk

With the availability of modern technology nowadays, books have been gone outdated. We already have many e-books readers available in the market today, which resulted for old-school books to be discarded and destined to our landfills. This obviously is not favorable to the environment. However, with environment care in mind, more and more people have …

Baxel Pavillion: A Beer Crate Structure

Does Eco-friendly architecture design becoming a trend or designers are really into saving the environment? More and more designers and student designers are now into eco-friendly design and this include the students from the University of Applied Science in Detmold, Germany who had just recently designed the Boxel pavilion. This hailed as eco-friendly pavilion is …

The Proposed Floating Community For The Vietnamese Bay

While the earth is mostly composed of water, it is nice to see that housing designs that make use of our water environment are now growing in numbers. Recently, a contest called The Self-sufficient City: Envisioning the habitat of the future has an entry that aims to provide sustainable lodging to the 1600 inhabitants of …

Campaign’s Foldaway Bookshop: Knowledge And Earth-friendly

Are bookshops still available in today’s generation? With the popular reading device like the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad available in the market today, bookshops are surely reducing in number. Well, whatever it is, what’s good about this bookshop that the Campaign has is that, it does not only provide its readers the right …