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…
Emerging practice O’DonnellBrown Architects with White Arkitekter and Ekkist has won the Crichton Project competition, an ambitious £15 million Scottish cultural project which will be built of the earth from which it rises. The winning conceptual design has been unveiled…
In a bid to deliver a new future-proof and climate-adaptive neighbourhood, Dutch design office VenhoevenCS has proposed a nature-inclusive apartment complex called ZOË Amsterdam. A brief from the municipality of Amsterdam called for a sustainable, green neighbourhood for the Sluisbuurt…
A sustainable new-build home has been built by Sketch Architects in the Surrey countryside, with a focus on modern materials and thermal efficiency. Set on a steeply sloping site in Farnham, the two-storey house replaces a disused bungalow and is…
The Building Centre presents its latest exhibition ‘Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future’, which calls for a new approach to building in order to combat climate change. Created in collaboration with not-for-profit organisation and emerging architecture studio Material Cultures, the exhibition…
Architect Tsukasa Ono has applied a ‘regenerative’ approach to the architecture for a co-operative housing project called Sumu Yakushima in southern Japan. The setting is Yakushima island, a natural paradise which is home to ancient Japanese cedar trees, and the…
