Archive for January, 2011
Innovative Garbage Collection Center in Spain
Designed by Vaillo + Irigaray, the lime green structure building actually a garbage collection center. The building facility gathers waste from neighboring areas, compacts it and prepares for it to be taken to other recycling plants. The facades was made from recycled material. Located in Huarte, Spain, the plant was conceived as an analogy to [...]
Category: Innovation Designer, posted at: Jan 28th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: facade, facades, inhabitat, Innovation Designer, recycled, recycling, Spain, Vaillo Irigaray
Gorgeous LEED Gold Cyan Building Eco Apartments in Portland
Designed by THA Architecture Inc. and GBD Architects, the new LEED Gold Cyan Building are rises sixteen stories above Portland’s downtown streetscape, offering a new model for sustainable urban living. Since it located in Portland’s downtown, the residents of the new building enjoy convenient proximity to urban amenities, all within a sustainable package that delivers [...]
Category: Apartment,Architecture,Eco Design, posted at: Jan 28th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: Architecture, Cyan Building, LEED, roof, THA, urban landscape
Stunning Modernist Meadow House in Canada
Architect Ian MacDonald‘s Meadow House that located on north of Toronto, Canada, is a modernist house and has designed which contemplative and integrated to its surroundings. This 3000 square feet house are neatly tucked below a hill, and the project’s profile is only betrayed by light scoops that rise well above the green roof. The [...]
Category: Home,House, posted at: Jan 28th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: Architect Ian, Canada, ground source heat, ground source heat pump, House, inhabitat, interior, living space, low impact, open spaces, roof
Unique Actelion Business Center Design in Allschwil, Switzerland
Named the Actelion Business Center, the structure was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and were completed recently. This cantilevered office building located in Allschwil, Switzerland. The structure is composed of rectangular volumes that appear to hover over one another like blocks in a game of Tetris. It also equipped with energy saving features like [...]
Category: Innovation Designer, posted at: Jan 27th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: facades, Innovation Designer, interior, shading, solar, solar panels, sustainable features, Switzerland
Completed Butaro Hospital in Rwanda by MASS Design Group
The Boston based architecture firm, MASS Design Group, has already completed a significant and humanitarian commission to build Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. The district hospital now serves 400,000 people and has an innovative design to help restrict the spread of infectious disease. It was also built using local craftsmen and materials, and came in under [...]
Category: Hospital, posted at: Jan 27th 2011, Comments: 1 CommentTags: architecture firm, Butaro Hospital, Design Group, inhabitat, innovative design, local materials, MASS, natural ventilation, ventilation
Striking Helix Bridge Design in Singapore’s Marina Bay
Designed by Cox Rayner Architects, the Helix Bridge is one of the few, if any, bridges in the world to be named after its structure. This bridge was designed to respond to its particular setting at the opening of the Singapore River to Marina Bay, a large inner harbour on which much of the city [...]
Category: Innovation Designer, posted at: Jan 27th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: Bridge, Bridge, bridges, evolo, Innovation Designer, Singapore
Stunning Snæfellsstofa Visitor Center in Iceland’s Vatnajokull National Park
Inspired by local materials and the glaciers in the surrounding park, the Snæfellsstofa Visitor Center is Iceland’s first BREEAM certified building. Located in Iceland’s Vatnajokull National Park, the new visitor center is a striking work of architecture situated in a haunting and beautiful natural landscape. Vatnajökull National Park is Europe’s largest national park and is [...]
Category: Landscape, posted at: Jan 26th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: ARK, BREEAM, energy efficient lighting, energy use, Europe, Iceland, Landscape, local materials, natural landscape, roof
Futuristic Robotic Emergency Shelter (EDV-01) for The Future
EDV-01 or the Emergency Disaster Vehicle is the vuture emergency housing with fully automated, capable of automatically doubling its size, and can be transported to anywhere you can set a shipping container. This innovative design that they called an emergency shelter robot were developed by Japanese engineering Diawa Lease. This 10 ton container unit can [...]
Category: House,Shipping Container, posted at: Jan 26th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: Diawa Lease, EDV, House, innovative design, roof, solar electric panels, storage, Virginia Tech
Stunning New Gallery House in San Francisco
Designed by Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects, this gallery house purpose to showcase the owner’s art collection. The building is centered around a sawtooth light shaft that offers tremendous daylighting characteristics. A green roof deck and fully opening walls provide access to the outdoors in a dense urban neighborhood. This gallery house located in San Fransisco. The space [...]
Category: Architects,House, posted at: Jan 26th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: House, interior, living space, roof, roof deck, San Francisco, San Fransisco, sculpture
Innovative Sphere of Clear Polycarbonate on London
Designed by Julian King Architect, it’s a sphere of clear polycarbonate that placed on the rooftops of London, between the Thames River and the sky above. This spere has diameter aproximately 7m and encases a room of 42 s.m. The spere’s shell is joined along aluminum rings that divide the world into its four meridians. [...]
Category: Architect,Innovation Designer,Sustainable Design, posted at: Jan 26th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: aluminum, evolo, Innovation Designer, roof, shape, Sustainable Design, Thames River
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