Tuesday 21 May 2013
 

Architecture

All By Design | Flow-Through Waterfall Frank Loyd Wright Home

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The Frank Lloyd Wright home featuring a flow-through waterfall may be the most recognizable residential design in modern history, but for all of its innovations its construction was extremely costly, not to mention the subsequent renovations required to hold its structure together over time. If that was the prototype for integrating moving water into houses, then this design may be one of the best executions of a contemporary, environmentally-integrated approach.

 

All By Design - Architecture | Solar City Tower in Rio de Janeiro

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The aim of this project is to ask how the classic concept of a landmark can be reconsidered. It is less about an expressive, iconic architectural form; rather, it is a return to content and actual, real challenges for the imminent post-oil-era. 
   

Broadway Matyan's National Heart Centre

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National Heart Centre by Broadway Malyan

 

 
The National Heart Centre is a competition winning entry for the first sustainable heart centre in South East Asia. Recognizing the correlation between the healing properties of natural light and planting, the concept draws inspiration from the medicinal courtyard gardens of the past monasteries, from whence the term hospital (from the Latin hospes) originates. 
   

All By Design | Torres House By GLR Arcquitectos

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Contemporary designed Torres House in Monterrey by GLR Arquitectos is embracing its natural surrounding in a very unique way.

   

12 New Extra-Large Sustainable Building Designs

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As the need for cooperative sustainability becomes ever clearer, can we learn from the mistakes of our past and fundamentally change the way we live? Adapting to the new needs of our world requires much more than a sprinkling of eco homes and businesses. These 12 gigantic green building products take on the challenge in a much bigger way – with concepts for new cities, new societies and buildings that solve the world’s most pressing problems, like access to fresh water.

   

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