At this year’s Sustainable Design Summit a host of sustainability experts, interior buyers, and suppliers, will be diving into the importance of conscious design and solutions for the future. The design forum, which is dedicated to making sustainable choices easier…
Around Finland’s largest lake, Studio Puisto has designed two black-painted timber buildings to form a new sauna-restaurant at the Pistohiekka Resort. Enshrouded by trees in a rocky cove, the resort comprises two square structures which have been punctuated with circular-shaped…
Carmody Groarke has developed a low carbon brick made from recycled municipal waste, which will be used in the construction of the Design Museum Gent’s new wing. Designed in collaboration with Local Works Studio, BC Materials, and TRANS Architecture, the…
Kerstin Thompson Architects has scooped the prestigious Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for its Bundanon Art Museum in New South Wales, Australia. A world-class centre for creative arts and education, Bundanon was recognised amongst this year’s most eminent…
Shanghai Library East, a new civic landmark and one of the largest new libraries to exist globally, has opened to the public in China. The building’s monolithic form and monumental shape covers an area of 115,000 square metres, and is…
Adam Knibb Architects were approached by a climate scientist to design an eco-friendly family home, and the finished building is a trailblazing example of adaptive reuse. Situated within the Surrey Green Belt in Hampshire, the sustainable three-bedroom house responds to…
A series of large-scale immersive installations are set to spark conversations at this year’s Dubai Design Week, focusing on innovative design for a sustainable future. Taking place from 8th-13th November 2022, Dubai Design Week is one of the Middle East’s…
Estonia-based company MuuwSpace has introduced its first prefabricated tiny cabin Muuw, designed to be transportable and easily assembled within a couple of days. Compact but functional, Muuw has a total building area of 15 square metres and is shaped in…
As COP27 fast approaches, a new report from UN Climate Change reveals that world efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by 2030. The report claims that “the combined climate pledges of 193 Parties under the…
Snøhetta has revealed its plans to modernise the Natural History Museum of Lille, combining urban renewal and preservation in its architectural ambitions. The major architectural and scientific transformation coincides with the museum’s 200th anniversary, and the striving ambition behind the…
Studio Weave has sustainably extended the Grade II-listed Lea Bridge Library in East London to accommodate a new café and an adaptable community hub. Forming a now revived heart for the Borough of Waltham Forest, the pavilion’s design is the…
Building on discussions around the future of our cities, the London Festival of Architecture 2023 has revealed that its thought-provoking theme, ‘In Common’. Where last year’s theme ‘Act’ asked us to step away from passivity and to question how can…
In a complete remodelling of a Victorian terrace house in North London, Neil Dusheiko Architects have overcome structural issues to create a thoughtfully crafted and future-proofed family home. Many years of subsidence had caused movement in the historic brick façade,…
Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has developed Land on Water, an adaptable and climate-resilient system for constructing floating buildings. Land on Water poses a more flexible and sustainable solution to traditional methods of floating architecture. It acknowledges the increasing risk…
An upcoming exhibition at V&A Dundee titled ‘Plastic: Remaking our World’, will put the spotlight on one of the most contested materials in our now more sustainable-focused world. Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material and has…
