The need to design sustainable buildings has never been so important than today. Since buildings themselves consume huge amounts of electricity owing to heating and cooling requirements, they significantly contribute to greenhouse emissions and waste. But
The Vissershok Primary School is a rural school, committed to the children of the deprived group of people living in the small paucity stricken town named Du Noon. Woolworths partnered with Safmarine and AfriSam transformed a twelve meter shipping contain
The Floating Cinema was designed by Hackney architects, ‘Studio Weave’ and artists Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie. It found its way through the shipping canal of the Olympic hosting region of London last summer. This narrow boat featured a variety of excitin
Last year Japan faced two massive destructive forces of nature, tsunami and an earthquake, which changed the face of the country. Japan survived but water still is an uncontrollable fear for the Japanese. To overcome it the architects of Sako Architects,
Mill Valley Cabins is a
beautiful hillside home and its inhabitants wanted their dwelling to have
something more in terms of green. They chose to hire Feldman Architecture to design
two small cabins for their existing home in Mill Valley, California. Thes
A team of designers led by James Corner Field Operations has won the rights to redesigning and revamping the iconic Navy Pier of the Chicago city. The new plan that will further increase the tourist inflow to the already popular Navy Pier calls for a luxu
Flourishing adjacent the Arabian Gulf coastline is the much talked about Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City. Still in the development stages, it is going to be a futuristic waterway city, for which the Public Authority of Housing Welfare intends to build a Cultural
Around the world eco conscious designers are creating iconic installations to connect man with nature. Every installation is unique, but the most important is the message conveyed by them. Usually most of these installations are created to go environment
Chicago is to get a new multiuse linear public space between the Ashland and Ridgeway Avenues. The project named, Bloomingdale Trail and Park, will give a chance for all the Chicagoans to relax during their leisure hours with some exciting cycling or walk
Architecture today When we think of architecture at an urban scope, most of us are bound to have reveries of glistening, sun kissed skyscrapers, adorning the cityscape of various metropolises. However, beyond their imposing visual nature, such conceptions
