SOZAWE | NL Architects
It truly is amazing how far we've come in how we perceive and use space. The new office for SOZAWE (Welfare Department and Work Agency) in the Dutch city of Groningen, wastes so much potential office ...
Green Roofs at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design, and Media | CPG Consultants
Green roofs are nice. They're a nice concept. They make us feel nice. And they are usually hidden up on a- you guessed it- roof. The Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design, and ...
Skin Collection | Studio Pepe Heykoop
To move forward is to acknowledge the mistakes of the past. The Skin Collection by Studio Pepe Heykoop is a collection of furnitures reacting to the excessive waste produced by the industry. 25-30% ...
Draped Membranes | Tingwei Xu and Xie Zhang
Draped Membranes | Tingwei Xu and Xie Zhang As sea levels rise globally, port cities everywhere face real challenges to their continued existences. It is a real shame that the oil and industry ...
Recycled Pull-tabs Bags & Accessories | Escama Studio
Escama Studios merges "humble" materials with traditional design. Their products are conceived by designers in America and Brazil and created by members of a Brazilian cooperative. This unique ...
Grass Covered Home | Weichlbauer Ortis Architect
Grass Covered Home by Weichlbauer Ortis Architect Here is another good example of a Sustainable and Environmentally friendly home with attractive architecture designed by Reinhold Weichlbauer and ...
ENI Foundation Headquarters | UNStudio
Upon first seeing UNStudio’s proposal for the ENI Foundation Headquarters, it reminded me of crop circles. When I say crop circles I don’t mean the elaborate designs we see in fields today by people ...
Flex Chair | Steve Watson
Sustainability is as much economy as it is ecology. An object's imbedded energy speaks to how much energy was expended to produce said object. It is a major element to how 'green' or sustainable ...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center | Weiss/Manfredi
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center | Weiss/Manfredi Green roofs are great, aren't they? They serve to in one fell swoop, alleviate concerns about the green-ness of a building. I mean just throw ...
Sanya Block 5 | NL Architects
Sanya Block 5 by NL Architects Located in Sanya, China- the winning proposal for Sanya Block 5 by NL Architects is something which seeks to do something a little different with the typology of ...
Active Phytoremediation Wall System | SOM + Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
All humans (with maybe the exception of clear-cutters and some McDonald's executives) bemoan the cutting down of the rainforests and the overall disappearing of green everywhere. Collaborative ...
Ecorium of the National Ecological Institute | Grimshaw + Samoo Architects & Engineers
Ecorium of the National Ecological Institute, So far, it could be asserted that 'green' has been something which a building incorporates, not so much what a building is. You know what I mean- being ...