Sustainable design

‘From Degradation to Regeneration’ Like many rapidly urbanizing Indian cities, Chennai has witnessed extensive loss and degradation of its natural green cover over the past three decades. During this period, the city’s built-up area is estimated to have increased from nearly 48% to over 74%, steadily replacing forests, scrublands, wetlands and open landscapes that once acted as natural green lungs. This large-scale transformation has accelerated land degradation, increased the risk of desertification, intensifying climate risks such as extreme rainfall, urban flooding, droughts, aquifer depletion and urban heat island effects. Among the most critical ecological systems of the Chennai region are its native biomes—for... More

CitySpace is one of the leading Polish flexible office operators. NOVO, its space between Jerozolimskie Avenue and Nowogrodzka Street in central Warsaw, covers 2,800 m² across two floors, with 328 workstations. The design project for NOVO won the European Property Award for the Best Office Interior category for Poland. The project had to reconcile three demands that usually pull against each other. - design, because in flexible offices people choose with their eyes. - economics, because every square metre has to earn its keep.- sustainability, because the most valuable material was the fit-out already in place. Most projects manage only two of the three. Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka City... More

Commissioned in 2018, INSADA Integrated Design Team was appointed to develop the architecture and interior design for Savasa, a compact residential development in Cikarang, West Java, in collaboration with Japanese developer Panahome. The project sought to demonstrate how thoughtful planning, sustainable design strategies, and efficient construction methods could elevate the quality of compact housing for modern Indonesian families. Savasa comprises two residential typologies. The first occupies a 6 × 11 meter plot with a total built area of 62 square meters over two storeys, while the second sits on a 7 × 12 meter plot with 72 square meters of built area. Despite their modest footprints, both homes were designed to provide gen... More

For its latest expansion, creative agency Mother transformed a previously underused building in LA’s historic West Adams neighborhood into a fully immersive, 15,000-square-foot office designed for collaboration, curiosity, and cultural production. Shadow Architects led the renovation, working closely with the interiors firm Office of BC to create a workplace that feels more like a neighborhood than an office. Erik Stackpole Undéhn Erik Stackpole Undéhn Spanning an entire city block, the building’s storefront-inspired façade draws inspiration from the surrounding streetscape, reflecting the materials and forms of early 20th-century Los Angeles. Wide overhangs, glass blocks, aluminum siding, and textured stucco... More

At the American Forest & Paper Association headquarters, materiality leads. Fox Architects shapes a spatial narrative rooted in forestry, where wood, paper, and light come together to express both industry and intent. A continuous thread of natural material moves through the interior, translating the association’s work into built form. Millwork, texture, and tone establish a calm, grounded atmosphere, while selected lighting, developed in collaboration with Ambiance Lighting, is handled with the same level of precision. The Portal family of luminaires is deployed as a cohesive system, balancing ambient and directional light with a restrained, minimal presence. Erin Kelleher Traveling through a winding cutout in the ceiling,... More

The Park The project redefines the role of contemporary public space by creating a new destination that combines landscape, water, sport, and collective experience within a single, coherent environment. Located in the southern part of Kraków, the proposal transforms a fragmented and underutilized area into a large-scale district sports and recreation center with a strong public character and regional reach. Rather than designing a traditional park or a standalone sports complex, the project establishes a layered spatial system that integrates everyday use with event-driven intensity. Eklekt Atelier Water forms the central element of the composition. Outdoor swimming pools, a large retention pond with an island, and the potentia... More

Urban Living Solutions required a headquarters that could reflect its working culture, support a team's daily rhythm, and adapt as the business evolved. The 275 square meter workplace, located within Rose Apple Square in central Siem Reap, answers that brief with a straightforward material language, a modular design logic, and a spatial layout that balances focus with collaboration. Rose Apple Square is a mixed-use destination combining residences, retail, co-working, and cultural facilities. Positioning the headquarters within this environment places the office at the intersection of community and commerce in a city that is rapidly developing its commercial real estate sector.  Robert Kleiner A plan built around flow T... More

EFA studio di architettura  redefines business architecture in Parma with a modular, 60,000-square-meter campus designed to harmonize industrial scale with human-centric research environments Marco Buzzoni Marco Introini Marco Buzzoni The Concept of the Corporate Citadel Located at a strategic gateway to Parma, the Chiesi Research and Development Centre is a 90-million-euro investment that transforms the landscape dominated by major infrastructure into a "corporate citadel." Spanning 60,000 square meters, the complex is modeled as an urban-scale organism where open spaces and structural elements balance functional rigor with morphological diversity.  Marco Buzzoni   Marco Buzzoni Integrated Archi... More

Set within the redesigned Henri‑Bourassa Park, the new community pavilion forms the centrepiece of a broader transformation of public space in Montréal‑Nord. The project replaces a modest park facility with a generous, clearly articulated building that offers a visible point of reference for local residents and visitors. Charles Lanteigne Charles Lanteigne The 1,000‑square‑meter pavilion is built primarily in structural timber and organized around flexible community rooms that can host workshops, meetings, cultural events and neighbourhood celebrations. These rooms open toward the park and are supported by a series of services for everyday users, such as washrooms, storage areas and informal gathering spaces. Offices and c... More

The new aquatic facilities in Sir George Étienne Cartier Park replace a 1960s pool complex at the heart of a century old urban square. The project introduces a bathers’ pavilion and a family of outdoor basins that renew the experience of swimming while fitting sensitively into the existing canopy of trees and the surrounding residential fabric. Charles Lanteigne Charles Lanteigne The pavilion is drawn as a low wave between the trees and the water. The alternation of glazed and more opaque façades, together with the broad entrance canopy, creates a clear transition between the public realm and the pool without overpowering the park. Open areas frame views toward the basins and the landscape, while enclosed port... More

Located on a sloping site between an industrial district and a residential neighborhood, the new Sûreté du Québec police station in Waterloo is conceived as a compact, specialized civic building whose roof functions as a fifth elevation. The program brings together administrative areas, officer services, investigation spaces, and a detention sector, each requiring strict security, confidentiality, and acoustic separation. The building settles into the topography with a restrained street facade while opening toward the landscape. Developed by Cimaise Architecture and STGM in consortium, the design introduces an inclined roof with a folded geometry inspired by the mountain chains of Québec’s Eastern Townships... More

Located at the heart of Université de Sherbrooke’s main campus, the cafeteria of the Multipurpose Pavilion, originally built in 1993, is reimagined as a new social heart for the university. As one of Quebec’s leading French-language research institutions, with a campus closely tied to its natural setting, it now offers renewed spaces of daily life for students, places to meet, study, share a meal and spend time together from morning to evening. Charles Lanteigne Charles Lanteigne The design is guided by the idea of an appropriable interior landscape, composed of a sequence of atmospheres rather than a single uniform hall. Students are invited to occupy the space in many ways: for a quick meal, collaborative wor... More

The Coffee Park pavilion is located at the heart of the Côte‑des‑Neiges | Notre‑Dame‑de‑Grâce borough, at the intersection of De Maisonneuve Boulevard and Broadway Avenue, slightly set back from the park’s main circulation routes. It appears as a discreet, welcoming contemporary pavilion, evoking a single‑storey house that is legible and reassuring, scaled to the families and children who use the site. The architectural concept is based on a simple, almost archetypal volume: a small, pitched‑roof chalet finely shaped by its envelope. A pleated metal roof and light brick façades are treated as a continuous skin folding down to shelter the interior spaces, creating protective porches and overhangs at the entrances. T... More