Search results for: 'sustainability'

Architecture Prize

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Architecture goes to Chinese architect Liu Jiakun. The award ceremony will take place on May 3 at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a building designed by Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel.

A line in the landscape

It is single-storey, windowless and easily 80 m long: the Dar el Farina house near Marrakech radically breaks with conventional notions of comfort and is energy self-sufficient.

Sustainable future lab

The new building in the 20th arrondissement of Paris offers its users 7500 m2 of space for start-ups and fab labs, as well as plenty of space for local residents. A hybrid wood-concrete construction was used.

Rammed earth meets wood

The new building in Ernstbrunn, Lower Austria, will extend the company's existing headquarters from 2014 – and boasts a comprehensive sustainability concept in line with industry standards.

Immersive pavilion structures and circular concepts

Under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives“, architects such as LAVA, Nüssli, Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban and Nikken Sekkei are impressing visitors to this year's Expo in Osaka with futuristic and sustainable pavilion structures.

Thought for Humans

The Salone del Mobile.Milano will open its doors from 8 to 13 April 2025 under the motto "Thought for Humans". More than 2000 exhibitors, cultural installations and futuristic discussions await visitors. One of the highlights is the return of the Euroluce Biennale.

DETAIL Climate Forum

How can architecture make our cities more resilient and our buildings more energy-efficient to meet climate demands?

Social sustainability

Dietrich Untertrifaller, art:phalanx and Reality Lab bring art and culture to the new neighbourhood. This creates a sense of community among the residents and with their neighbours.

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Circular building

A colourful glass facade wraps around DGJ Architektur's cooperative housing near Frankfurt city centre. It serves as an eye-catcher and an effective soundproofing facade for the day-care centre and the residents.

Brick and wood as a sustainability strategy

4x4 walls and a roof – this is how the design concept of the detached house in Llinars del Vallès, near Barcelona, could be summed up. Using simple methods, the architects have managed to reduce the energy requirements to almost passive house levels.

Subsequent densification in solid wood

In Vienna's Meidling district, Freimüller Söllinger has created 85 flats in solid timber construction on a former supermarket site.

A statement against land take

dRMM have built an unusual industrial building in East London: five storeys high, made almost entirely of timber and with 14 units for rent to small businesses.