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Established on the lower slopes of a hill, amidst the sprawling 40 acres land of Pune's renowned educational institute Symbiosis, SUHRC has been developed on a forested hill, in a discrete and quiet location. Envisaged as a Multi-Specialty Hospital to provide excellent health care facilities and a State of the art - Centre that would enhance Skill development in the Field of Medicine, the development envisions to educate and empower medical students. Conceptualized to cater to the needs of all the stakeholders, the hospital caters to the nearby population of Pune and its neighboring areas, while providing Tele-Medicine services to ensure outreach services to peripheral, far-flung and access-compromised settlements. Amidst today's context, c... More

Shaped by the hands of humans, the deformations experienced in the natural environment are transforming today's living conditions.  Therefore it has become a necessity to develop new strategies and techniques related to life sustaining activities (such as nutrition and shelter) that can adapt to these transformations. Undoubtedly, the negative and positive effects of such technological developments on a necessity that appears on a global scale are quite high. At this point, perhaps it would not be wrong to compare these technological developments to a negative and positive-faced medallion. Although it is clear that the rapid technological developments experienced after the 2000s has had a negative effect on the natural environment, it... More

Racibórz, like many cities after the war during the liberation by the Red Army, was almost completely destroyed. Eighty percent of the buildings were ruined, while the population was only three thousand out of the total fifty thousand. The reconstruction was carried out without taking into account the ownership rights, or even with the old urban structure - mainly the remains of the tenements were demolished, replacing them with free-standing housing blocks. The picturesque old town, which has been organically shaped for hundreds of years, has lost its former splendor. The last unhealed gap in the tissue of the old town is Square Długosza, occupying the area after close to former urban quarters, New Market Square and St. Marcel. This area -... More

The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, (NIOO-KNAW), studies the effect of nature in all its many forms. It is, therefore, only fitting that ecological processes and the dynamics of nature themselves influenced the design and construction of their new premises. The principal ambition was to implement the most sustainable research institute in the world based on the cradle-to-cradle philosophy. The Netherlands Institute of Ecology is situated near the campus of Wageningen University, but falls under the aegis of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The institute comprises a main building with laboratories, offices, a restaurant and an auditorium, and a series of separate buildings for botanical and zoological research. The c... More