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Environmental design

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about environmental design

NewsNews • 8 May 2024

Snøhetta completes Norway’s first naturally climatized mixed-use building

Global transdisciplinary architecture and design practice Snøhetta has completed Norway’s first naturally climatized mixed-use building. Vertikal Nydalen is located in the Nydalen neighborhood of Oslo, a former industrial area by the river Akerselva. The visually appealing and dynamic structure incorporates a simplified and self-sufficient climate system, based on research into sustainable energy solutions. Lars Petter Pettersen/Snøhetta Snøhetta and Lala Tøyen Over the course of several decades, Nydalen has transitioned from an industrial area into a modern business hub. The site on which Vertikal Nydalen sits had been used as a car park. In a bid to transform the neighborhood into a vib... More

Project • By FluxwerxLibraries

Hapeville Library

The new Hapeville Library (Hapeville, GA) embraces the town’s association with speed and industrial innovation. Taking cues from the jet era, the building’s form references engine air intakes, gridded flight chart data, and concrete pouring patterns used for runways. Firewater Photography - McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture To ensure function matched form, the McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture design team needed energy efficient lighting that would create a comfortable environment for visitors and elevate the building’s architectural motif.  Firewater Photography - McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture Aperture linear suspended luminaires helped the designers achieve these goals. Perforation has long been u... More

Project • By FluxwerxCommunity Centres

JEAN-DRAPEAU PARK PAVILION

Having undergone a complete transformation in 2019, Jean-Drapeau Park was reimagined by architects Lemay landscape work and Éclairage Public’s strategic and beautiful use of Fluxwerx and Lumenpulse luminaires, bringing one of the city’s premier parks into the 21st century. Stéphane Brügger, David Boyer With the goal to minimize the visual impact of the lighting fixtures in the space, the Fluxwerx View suspended luminaires were selected due to their innovative LED design with no direct or indirect view of the light source when on. To help address multiple layers of public safety concerns, environmental protection, ease of operation, and aesthetic attraction, Éclairage Public design team specified t... More

Project • By BergmeyerOffices

Boston Beer

A workplace redesign that truly complements a company and its people? Cheers to that! After creating two successful Tap Rooms serving their craft brewing innovations, we partnered with The Boston Beer Company again – this time to transform their corporate office. Boston Beer asked us to help them create a more cohesive office environment that would connect and showcase their brands while fostering community and collaboration in their home base. Caption The existing 50,000 SF workplace had a public corridor that physically divided the office into two sides, with walls and storefronts – and security barriers – separating them. Our design team overcame the inconvenient layout by eliminating the barriers and opening up... More

Project • By WhitespaceCommercial Landscape

Foodie Market

Needing to grab the attention of suburban automobile traffic day and night, Whitespace created large-scale architectural entrance signage serving both as a high visibility landmark and branded entrance gateway to the complex. Our scope of work also included a graphic design framework with functionality, flexibility, informality, and fun as drivers. Capable of encouraging selfies and ussies wherever possible– for organic social media marketing. Caption Further, in support of an adjacent entertainment facility, our teams created three-dimensional environmental graphic / sculptural elements. A great demonstration of Whitespace unique capabilities to bring graphic design to an architectural scale. And throughout, Foodie Market is de... More

Project • By DEEPSTREAM DESIGNS, INCParks/Gardens

Chicago Parks Ford Calumet Environmental Center

A Bold New Environmental Center redeems a Former Brownfield Site created by steel mills dumping toxic slag for almost a century in southeast side of Chicago.  In 2016, The Chicago Environmental Fund (CEF) dedicated $3.7M for the construction of the Ford Calumet Environmental Center at Big Marsh. Funds were originally provided to CEF by Ford Motor Company. The center design began in late 2016 and opened to the public in August 2021. DeepStream Designs is proud to part of this positive environmental transformation providing recycled and recyclable aluminum screen wall and gates to create the dangerous equipment enclosure to the Center which is built with Corten steel.  Every DeepStream product generates a donation the Trees.org to... More

Project • By Comelite Architecture Structure and Interior DesignShopping Centres

Shopping Center Design

The shopping center design in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, creates a modern design with a complex structure that fulfills the functional and environmental requirements. Most people are looking at smart designs and ideas that allow functionality while having a strong building that will stand other factors like wind and earthquakes.  This luxury commercial property is creating a vibrant, dynamic, and memorable retail destination. More

Project • By Pomeroy StudioOffices

Amadeus

In the heart of Ginza, a premium office building brings together 2 divisions of global travel tech company, Amadeus. A central collaboration space encourages further casual interactions, and extends to the corner cafe that offers panorama skyline views. The interior colour and furniture palette takes inspiration from Japan’s mountain scape with bright accents from the Gingko tree. Caption Caption Caption More

Project • By AshariArchitectsBars

Upcycle Cafe ( Ferdowsi Cafe )

Upcycling Café is about 360 square meters.It is a part of Persian Golf complex in shiraz .The main goal of designing is creating environmental , social and economic sustainability .The waste materials , existing in the location of the project and a locality of collecting wastes ,have been applied .The designing details is in such a way that employer was able to implement them without professional builder. Devoting part of the cafe to eatable vegetables not only provided economic self-efficiency , but also filtered the interior air . We destroyed a portion of exterior wall to supply natural light for plants . Social interaction has been realized through variety of seating , an insular counter and a stage . We used some materials from the pre... More

Project • By NDAStudioIndividual Buildings

Amadai Cultural Center

Client: The municipality of HamadanArchitent: NDA StudioArchitect in charge: Notash DadjooDesign Team: Notash Dadjoo, Mohammad Gerami, Naiem Nakhaie, Mehdi KhalafiSite area: 44500 Project area: 11800 The municipality of Hamadan intended to build a cultural complex on a small hill with a special visibility to the city. Consideration of building as a new urban sign, site topography, climate of the region, city’s architectural heritage, night sight with lighting, a platform with a proper view to the city, visibility from urban area to the project and providing given mixed functions was the fundamental need in architectural design which have been declared by the client. According to these needs, three approaches were adopt... More

Project • By NDAStudioIndividual Buildings

BioCell Skyscraper

Unbalanced development of cities due to the lack of consideration of environmental issues and sustainable development, along with mismanagement, causing serious environmental issues such as excessive carbon emissions, pollutions, heat islands, destroying natural ecosystems. In order to meet the needs of the increasing population of cities, future development is inevitable and among it, the process of environmental degradation and growth of urban ecological footprint will be continued. Continuing this kind of development will be follow by environmental crises such as climate change and global warming. Building industry has an important factor in engender and intensification of these crises. Biological Urban Cell (BioCell) is the solution for... More