Fascinating Wood Pavilion at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo
The South Pond Pavilion at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo is a stunning architectural statement located along the Zoo’s new Nature Boardwalk. Designed by Chicago based Studio Gang Architects, the prefab pavilion is part of a larger effort to rehabilitate the zoo’s dilapidated pond into a natural habitat and exhibit of pond life. The project also [...]
Christie Walk : New Eco Urban Village in Australia
The Christie Walk development in downtown Adelaide was built as an experiment in how sustainable and dense design could still offer a peaceful and quality lifestyle for its residents. The result is 27 very efficient and healthy households that require much less water and energy than their neighbors. The complex uses a thorough plan that [...]
New Fascinating Chicago Environmental Center
Ford Calumet Environmental Center explores the city’s wildlife corridor by collecting the discarded materials across the region, like a nest, to create an education and observation center. Located within Hegewisch Marsh, a 130-acre wetland undergoing ecological restoration, the center is anticipated to host 100,000 visitors a year within a new, LEED Platinum facility. This site-sensitive [...]
Cardborigami : a Portable Housing Shelter
After graduated from USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, Tina Hovsepian designed and developed a foldable, portable, emergency housing shelter based on the principles of origami. Her Cardborigami shelter is constructed from recycled cardboard and expands into a shelter big enough for two people to sleep in. The cardboard origami shelter can then fold down small [...]
Luxury Hawaiian Residence With Reclaimed Wood in Kona
Designed by Belzberg Architects, This beautiful house in Kona, on the big island of Hawaii, is definitely a luxury residence with eco green design. Its an incredible collection of reclaimed materials and energy efficient applications. Featuring reclaimed barn wood, a set of train tracks fashioned on the outside of the house, and a solar power [...]
Modern Shipping Containers College Dorm in France
New College dorm for student at Le Havre, France. Their rooms are modern, light-filled and made from old shipping containers! Called Cité a Docks and designed by Cattani Architects, the minimalistic dwellings each come with a bathroom, a kitchen and, most importantly, bragging rights. Cattani made sure they created an open feeling with their design [...]
Stunning Institut du Monde Arabe in France
France’s longstanding relationship with Islamic culture is inspiring in Jean Nouvel’s stunning Institut du Monde Arabe. The visionary design surprised the 19 donor nations when they first saw the concept in the 1980’s. Far from a traditional austere building, the institute features radical hightech walls emblazoned with mechanical apertures that respond to sunlight by narrowing [...]
50,000 Milk Cartons Castle Breaks World Record
Spain has had a busy summer, as the project on the grounds of Facultad de Arquitectura de Granada just beat out another record breaking recycled project from up north. They did it by enlisting 5,000 local elementary students to compete in sourcing as many cardboard milk containers as they could. The result was an interactive [...]
Beautiful Sustainable Bamboo Pavilion in Indian Ocean Ring
Australian designer Esan Rahmani worked together with Mukul Damle to design this beautiful Bamboo Pavilion as a communal shelter for disadvantaged populations around the Indian Ocean Rim. Since bamboo are alredy well know as building material from channeling water to building roofs wich grows throughout Asia and can be used for any number of applications. [...]
New Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale by OMA
An incredible new library that located on the tip of the peninsula of Caen, France win out the Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale (BMVR). With an area of nearly 130,000 square feet across two intersecting masses clad in gleaming floor to ceiling windows features an energy efficient system able to respond to local climactic conditions [...]
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