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Danish studio EFFEKT has designed a self-sustaining, off-grid village of greenhouse properties, which it will present inside the Danish Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. Called ReGen Villages, the project imagines a community of buildings that produce all their own food and energy – a model ...
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Sustainable design strategies in this building are: passive design to reduce the energy demand, use of vegetation as a constructive element, extra isolation of the envelope, the use of the thermal inertia of enclosure and floors, the use of efficient ...
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Many companies are starting to build a meditation practice into their culture—from starting out the day with a group meditation session to encouraging individual practices. Yet few companies have actually designed their workspaces around it. EnterHeadspace, the makers of the ...
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In paris’ 13th arrondissement, architect stéphane malka has employed a flexible partition system to delineate a new office in the french capital. agoratic, a company who specializes in computer education, commissioned malka and his team to design a workplace that ...
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In addition to 70 guest rooms and suites, the Hotel at Oberlin features a bar and restaurant serving locally sourced foods. The hotel’s adjoined conference facility, the Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center, includes a 3,800-square-foot event space with state-of-the-art meeting ...
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The craze for harbour baths in Denmark continues, with CF Møller set to build a trio of floating classrooms to provide “aqua learning” and water sports training for the new Copenhagen International School. CF Møller Landscape, an offshoot of the Scandinavian architecture ...
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When Helly Scholten and her partner Mark de Leeuw learned about Rotterdam University’s experimental CHIBB House, an oversized greenhouse that doubles as a home, they immediately applied to live in it. Under Arjan Karssenberg’s leadership, students of the university’s Applied ...
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Architectural visualiser Alex Hogrefe has imagined a precarious concrete retreat cut into the edge of a remote clifftop in Iceland, as part of a series of tutorials in creating renderings. Hogrefe designed the building to allow him to demonstrate some of the visualisation techniques he ...
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Foolscap Studio, have designed a temporary food and drink space in Sydney, Australia, that has been setup while the Barangaroo development is under construction. Working together with Lendlease, they created the 170m (557ft) long space, that is home to food and drink vendors like, ...