Designed and completed by Mario Cucinella Architects, the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies, University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China sets the standard for sustainable energy research. The main function Cucinella’s newly opened building is to provide a specialist research laboratory for staff and postgraduate students within the new Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies. The tower [...]

The house is built on a private beach on the Pacific Ocean coastline and was designed to celebrate its extraordinary site. The traditional Mexican beach-house is constructed with a number of wooden columns that carry a high palapa roof. This allows the sea breeze to pass through the palapa and ventilate the space in this [...]