Camden Town Unlimited (CTU) and Euston Town have launched Camden Green Loop to boost biodiversity and connect the London borough’s key landmarks, cultural experiences, and green spaces. The Camden Green Loop is a major new urban design strategy set to…
By planting 14,000 native trees along historic waterways in England and Wales, the Canal & River Trust seeks to protect and preserve biodiversity and aid CO2 absorption. The project will focus on plugging gaps in the canal hedgerows and establish…
A £7.6 million boost for the Eden Project Dundee will fund the detailed development design and formal planning, bringing it a step closer to construction. Set to be built on the former gasworks on East Dock Street overlooking the River…
Using recycled plastic bottles and plant-based materials, The Big Beanbag Company has created an eco-friendly beanbag that is fully compostable. With the aim to help remove single-use plastics, founders David Crawford and Lucy Farmer decided to find an alternative to…
For India’s Prestige University, Sanjay Puri Architects has designed an energy efficient building with an accessible stepped roof and a series of interactive spaces. Spanning 32-acres, the university campus is located within the Indian city of Indore, and the new…
Fabrix has set a precedent in becoming the first developer in the UK to purchase second-hand steel for reuse, accelerating a move to a circular economy. Aiming to spur industry change and encourage open market purchases of used materials, Fabrix has…
The world’s largest consumer-owned wind farm, owned by Ripple Energy, is now open for share purchases in an effort to offer households green energy ownership and stable-priced power. With recent energy price hikes announced, this initiative offers customers the potential…
The rooftop greenhouse Agrotopia in Belgium has become Europe’s largest public building dedicated to urban food production. Conceived by Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten in collaboration with Meta Architectuurbureau, Agrotopia highlights the feasibility of rooftop agriculture in an urban setting. At…
Barcelona-based studio Peris+Toral Arquitectes has completed the largest timber-framed residential building in Spain. Built from 8,300 cubic metres of timber harvested from the forests of the Basque Country, the freestanding building comprises five wood-framed floors supported by a reinforced concrete…
A series of luxury timber-clad retreats have been envisioned by Cumulus Studio in response to a call for a new tourism experience in South Australia. Wellington Marina, as the new project is called, has been developed as part of the…
Cowper Griffith Architects has completed the timber-structured Carlton Marshes Visitor Centre on the Suffolk Broads, inspiring education on local wildlife and nature. Designed as the flagship building for The Suffolk Wildlife Trust, the centre is nestled in the Waveney Valley…
Due to be constructed in Uganda this spring, the Kampala House project by Marc Thorpe Design will involve sustainable dwellings built from compressed earth. For this ecologically responsible housing development, Marc Thorpe Design partners with Stage Six and Échale International…
Ahead of Surface Design Show 2022 (8th-10th February), trend forecaster and curator of the show’s Surface Spotlight Live feature Sally Angharad reveals the design directions that the latest innovative materials are following. She highlights trends from Soft Lines, Pattern Inlays,…
London has won a bid to host the biennial Ecocity World Summit in June 2023. Set to take place at the city’s Barbican Centre, the global conference that was first held in 1990 is pioneering for necessary action, asking the…
The opening of the Winter Park Library & Events Centre in Florida, completed by David Adjaye Associates, has revealed a biophilic-designed civic and cultural hub conceived as a micro-village of three pavilions. Part of the extensive revitalisation of the park,…
