Welcome to Enki’s Eco Edit: May 2023, our monthly sustainable lifestyle news series which will round-up our curated selection of the best eco-friendly brands, shopping ideas, and places to visit. This month, we discover a new recipe book filled with…
Architecture studio SOM has revealed plans for the New York Climate Exchange, a mass-timber, net-zero ‘living laboratory’ to be built on Governors Island in New York City. The new campus, designed by SOM in collaboration with Stony Brook University, aims…
Award-winning furniture designer and master craftsman Angus Ross has designed a new, curvaceous garden range, to be presented on his first appearance at RHS Chelsea from 22nd-27th May 2023. The Dalerb Garden Collection, comprising a handcrafted chair, bench and table,…
With a purposeful intention to open up discussions around improving our built environment and how we can share knowledge and ideas within our communities, the London Festival of Architecture 2023 is returning this June. With the 2023 theme ‘In Common’…
Extensive planted areas, pocket parks, and rooftop terraces shape the ‘green artery’ of Amstel Design District, the new mixed-use development by Mecanoo. The Dutch architecture studio has unveiled the future-orientated project in Amsterdam that is a scheme for a living…
Slovakian studio GRAU Architects has worked in collaboration with international architecture students to craft a temporary Tea House Pavilion on Hrabinka Lake in the Czech Republic, using local spruce, plywood, and roof geotextile. Perched on the verdant banks of the stunning…
Welcome to Enki’s Eco Edit: April 2023, the fourth in our monthly sustainable lifestyle news series which round-ups our curated selection of the best eco-friendly brands, shopping ideas, and places to visit. This month, we take a look at a…
The Don’t Move, Improve! 2023 shortlist has been announced, recognising 15 of London’s most innovative home improvement projects, which all reflect this year’s programme theme of Green Ambitions. This annual London-wide architecture competition, organised by New London Architecture (NLA), is…
Exemplifying sustainable living on a minimal footprint, Court Fort by Compartment S4 is designed as a living-working space for an urban farmer in India. It’s a context sensitive project which aims to forge strong connections between the built form and…
Testing new ideas and ways to use concrete-free construction, emerging architecture practice ByOthers has hand-built their own Garden Studio in Peckham, South London. The Garden Studio, positioned at the rear of a terraced plot, is characterised by the angular geometry…
With the completion of the £2.3 million Bothy and Tùr in South Lanarkshire, the Glasgow office of jmarchitects has sustainably upgraded the visitors experience at Cuningar Loop Forestry Park. A timber-built Bothy building and Tùr, a lookout tower with ramped…
Environment-centred design store The Home of Sustainable Things (HOST) has introduced Myceen, a range of carbon-negative, compostable, and regenerative mushroom mycelium-made products to its collection. The Myceen range, comprising the B-Wise pendant lamp, Lo Blox and Hi Blox side tables,…
Welcome to Enki’s Eco Edit: March 2023, the third in our monthly sustainable lifestyle news series which will round-up our curated selection of the best eco-friendly brands, shopping ideas, and places to visit. This month, we take a look at…
Seeking a toxin-free home, the owners of a converted Victorian ground-floor flat in London approached Clayworks to help with the design of contemporary style, healthy living spaces. Yazen Hasi, owner of design and build firm Gestalt Developments, and his wife…
Welcome to Enki’s Eco Edit: February 2023, the second in our monthly sustainable lifestyle news series which will round-up our curated selection of the best eco-friendly brands, shopping ideas, and places to visit. This month, we take a look at…
