Belgium’s Whale-like Ice Rink in Liège is Both Energy Efficient and Fun
Liège’s new Olympic Ice Rink, which has the rather interesting look of a beached whale, was finally completed last month. L'Escaut Architecture are responsible...
A Solar-Powered Temporary Housing Unit Now Home to Damaged Property Victims
A number of designers are competing to design the best practical emergency housing unit. Michel Antoun Zateef’s design of The Temporary Housing Unit is...
True North Log Homes Adds More Energy Efficiency by Using Sustainably Grown Timber
True North Log Homes has constructed this quite marvellous structure from Quebec and north Ontario’s sustainably-grown white pine heartwood timber, which incidentally are also...
Rotterdam’s Floating Pavilion is Solar Powered and Developed to Withstand Climate Change
In order to face the challenges posed by climate change and its consequent rise of sea levels, Rotterdam has begun the construction of some...
Chinese Gold Sliced Porosity Block Deserves Green Kudos
The Sliced Porosity Block in China has been declared finished by Steven Holl Architects. The building, which was designed with daylighting in mind, is...
Barcelona’s Prefab MZ House is Energy and Cost Efficient
The aim of Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas (CFS) Arquitectes, who are based in Barcelona, is to make "conscious" architecture which bears in mind environmental and social responsibilities.
It...
Detroit Welcomes 93 Shipping Containers Made into Luxurious Apartment
Detroit will be welcoming the appropriately-named Power of Green Housing Development which is a project aiming to convert 93 shipping containers to a luxurious...
The Only Five Star Hotel in Gaza Was Constructed Using Adobe Bricks
Much imagination is required to envisage a five star hotel as part of Gaza’s ruins, particularly one constructed using adobe bricks. The building was...
California’s City Planners Aim to Drastically Modify Suburban Paradigm
Planners in the Newark suburb area of California’s San Francisco Bay are planning a lifestyle revolution, starting with vacant industrial land near a derelict...
New Building Material Formed from Recycled Concrete Debris by Using Lightning Blasts
Waste is not only made up of soda bottles thrown away or discarded newspaper. People are continually changing the environment to suit new purposes...
