Environmentally conscious architects are always trying to find a passive way to control the interior environment of buildings to reduce global warming and energy consumption. Reintroducing massive stone or brick load bearing walls offers good thermal insulation, and many small windows, roof lights and light wells can be included to admit as much natural light [...]

The Elithis Tower was designed by Arte Charpentier Architects and constructed as the world’s most environmentally sound building, has been revealed in Dijon, France. Touted as the first positive energy office structure, the tower creates more power than it uses and produces six times less greenhouse gas emissions than classic commercial buildings. From design to [...]

Designed by Ben van Berkel of the Dutch architecture firm UNStudio for the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), the Haus für Musik und Musiktheater der Kunstuniversität Graz (MUMUTH) is a faculty building in Graz, Austria. The new Music Theatre, designed by UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel with Caroline Bos following an international competition [...]

The TKTS is opened in Times Square, New York, United States on the 16th of October. The TKTS booth proper is a fiberglass shell fabricated by Merrifield-Roberts of Bristol, R.I., which also makes boat hulls. The overall structure was designed by Nicholas S. Leahy and his colleagues at Perkins Eastman, based on a competition-winning concept [...]

The fire station, a simple high box that almost disappears after the facade, which plays with the context in a game of reflections, floating on the patio of maneuvers and the pump cars parking area; this space extends towards the street or, in inverse reading, incorporates the urban space. This building designed by AT 103 [...]