Sustainability

 Fast growth, office-first Almedia's ambitious People & Culture team approached STUDIO VALE to create a workplace for its fast-growing, office-first team. The strategy was built around staying ahead of the curve, using the office as a place for communication, flexibility and collaboration to support the company's rapid growth. Caption Circular procurement: 55 tonnes of CO₂ emissions avoided Through STUDIO VALE's network, the project made the most of Berlin's shrinking tech bubble and the wave of company downsizing, sourcing pre-owned furniture from businesses reducing their footprint or leaving the city. As a bootstrapped, non-investor-driven company, Almedia naturally embraced a conscious and responsible use of resources.... More

The project consists of the interior design and customization of a newly built apartment within a residential development located in the picturesque neighborhood of Saavedra, just fifty meters from Parque Saavedra, one of Buenos Aires' largest urban green spaces. Juan Pablo Trionfetti Juan Pablo Trionfetti From our first visit, we recognized the unit’s potential. Its north-facing orientation ensured abundant natural light throughout the day, while its untouched condition offered a rare opportunity to shape the space from a clean and flexible starting point, free from previous interventions or constraints. Juan Pablo Trionfetti We also identified an underutilized double-height space that presented an opportunity to exp... More

Plinth House is a landmark 3,000 sqm private coastal villa in Kuwait, completed in 2025 under the full architectural, interior, and landscape scope of Cambra Buró, an international studio with offices in Spain, Florida, and Kuwait. Its defining concept is a refined dialogue between weight and lightness: a sculpted travertine plinth grounds the building, while the upper volume rises with a quiet, monumental presence. Tooze Studio What truly distinguishes this project is its sustainability-led approach, embedded from the very beginning of the design process. Advanced façade insulation, solar integration, and greywater recovery systems are not add-ons, but integral components shaping the architecture. Natural, high-performa... More

 A carbon-reducing remodel and retrofit of a detached house in Barnes that could become a template for retrofits of many similar houses across the UK.Sitting outside a Conservation Area and unrestrained by planning, a simple, two-story suburban house from the 1930s went through a piecemeal expansion typical for the 1990s. In under 10 years, it nearly doubled its square meterage, spreading out in all directions. Agnese Sanvito Agnese Sanvito Agnese Sanvito Agnese Sanvito The seemingly endless extensions, with ever-bigger windows, finally culminated in the addition of a ubiquitous conservatory, all facing due south. By the 2020s, the house became challenging to live in, fluctuating from too cold in the winter to over... More

Reframing Retail as Cultural Infrastructure: Unity Mall is conceived as an architectural response to a national question:Can retail infrastructure become an instrument of cultural integration, ecological sensitivity, and economic empowerment? Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, is the primary gateway to the state. The site, located within the emerging New Shillong Township, is part of a rapidly developing administrative and institutional zone. Transcending conventional definitions, Unity Mall is conceived not as a sealed container of commerce, but a civic landscape where craft, culture, tourism, training, and community converge. It is an infrastructural framework designed to strengthen the cultural and economic fabric of the Northeas... More

The Waldorf School of Pittsburgh is an independent, non-profit K-8 school serving more than 200 students and faculty on a two-acre campus in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. While most classrooms and administrative space are housed in a historic Victorian-era mansion, increased student enrollment indicated the need for expanded classroom space on school grounds. The Waldorf School engaged our practice to create a standalone classroom for eighth-grade students that reflected the school’s guiding principles and commitment to sustainability, and would support a pivotal stage of student development, growth, and transition. Nic Lehoux Nic Lehoux The 1,000 square-foot classroom—named “Heartwood Annex”... More

Surat Municipal Corporation High Rise Office Campus: Redefining Urban Governance: Surat city is one of the fastest-growing cities globally. With its burgeoning textile and diamond industries, it is considered the economic capital of Gujarat state. The present Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) headquarters is located in a very dense urban area in the old city, with other departmental offices of SMC scattered throughout the city. INI Design Studio The Surat Municipal Corporation is developing a new administrative head office building aimed at consolidating its various departments functioning from different premises spread across the city into a single, cohesive entity. This initiative seeks to provide citizens with a more accessible an... More

Architecture here becomes a cosmic instrument. Conceived as a spatial embodiment of the solar system, the Astronomy and Space Science Gallery transforms abstract astronomical phenomena into an immersive, navigable experience. A luminous central void acts as the sun, anchoring a constellation of orbiting galleries that choreograph the visitor’s journey from the familiar to the infinite. At its core, a spherical planetarium appears to levitate above an amphitheatre, collapsing structure, spectacle, and learning into a single architectural moment—where science is not merely observed, but physically inhabited. Vinay Panjwani, India Vinay Panjwani, India Vinay Panjwani, India As India’s largest facility dedicat... More

In 1797 the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya produced a series of 80 etchings collectively titled Los Caprichos, of which plate 43, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters), became its most emblematic. Each print offered a condemnation of different factions within eighteenth-century Spanish society, from the ignorance of the ruling class to the mysticism of the clergy – caricatures so grotesque and uncompromising that in 1799 Goya was forced to retract the series from the art market. STAR strategies + architecture More than a century and a half later, the Italian architectural collective Superstudio produced their own series of collages titled Il Monumento Continuo (The Continu... More

Having undergone rapid and widespread urban development since its independence, Singapore faces the critical issue of land scarcity. Sustainable development in a land-scarce country, therefore, necessitates innovative solutions. Paya Lebar Green offers a workplace prototype for sustainable development, employing adaptive re-use strategies on a brownfield site to address the evolving needs of the Paya Lebar precinct. David Yeow, Courtesy of DP Architects Paya Lebar Green (PLG) is a redevelopment of the existing Certis Centre, comprising two blocks—PLG North, which underwent extensive addition and alternation (A&A) works to an existing building, and PLG South, a new grade-A office building. The development was awarded the Buil... More

The new public library is the result of a 2005 initiative to expand the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) system, which lead to four freestanding branch facilities for Ann Arbor’s school district. The Traverwood Branch serves as a community-based learning center primarily for the residents of northeast Ann Arbor. JGC JGC JGC Being across from the Sapp Nature Area – an 8.11 acre nature reserve adjacent to the site – the design strategy of the library was to serve the public and community, while also protecting and maintaining the existing ecosystems and biodiversity within and around the site. Situated on a heavily wooded 4 acre green-field site, the library is oriented to minimize its impact on the natural... More

Set within Ahmedabad’s Transit Oriented Development Zone, Navratna Corporate Park by INI Design Studio responds to the shifting dynamics of contemporary work with an architecture rooted in flexibility, sustainability, and urban identity. Positioned on a prominent 10,000 square meter corner plot, the complex is composed of two striking 70-meter towers that rise as a new landmark in the city’s commercial skyline. Their form composed of stacked volumes wrapped in double-skin high-performance glazing, hosts premium workspaces while integrating biophilic breakouts, advanced infrastructure, and environmentally responsible systems. Karan Gajjar / The Space Tracing Company Karan Gajjar / The Space Tracing Company INI Design... More

Winthrop Center has established a new benchmark for large-scale sustainable design. Located in Boston's Financial District, Winthrop Center gives new definition and vitality to this part of the city. The project includes over 1.8M sq. ft. of residential, office, and retail space. The office component is Passive House certified, making Winthrop Center the largest Passive House commercial building in the world. In addition, this portion of the tower is targeting LEED Platinum and WELL Gold, while the residential portion above is targeting LEED Gold. Winthrop Center seeks to enhance and revamp the existing Winthrop Square, creating new open space to serve Boston, and linking together several other adjacent outdoor spaces. A grand new public... More

Banco Santander Headquarters will demonstrate a commitment to corporate citizenship at the highest levels. The Banco Santander Headquarters is Handel Architects’ groundbreaking new 800,000 SF commercial office building in Santiago, Chile. The building embodies our firm’s aspirations for a sustainable future, a more humane workplace, and an enlightened relationship between corporate institutions and the societies that they serve. Located along Américo Vespucio Avenue and adjacent to a linear greenway used for walking and biking, the building will be a vertical urban campus. The design takes advantage of Santiago’s mild climate by integrating the indoors and outdoors, visually expressed in balconies that define the... More