Month: July 2021

the newly added lightweight pavilion and outdoor areas were designed in collaboration with local firm alley poyner macchietto architecture (APMA).
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Environmental certification schemes for buildings overlook embodied carbon and encourage architects to add unnecessary “systems and gizmos” to achieve high ratings, according to architect Andrew Waugh. Schemes such as BREEAM and LEED focus overwhelmingly on operational emissions rather than emissions from the construction supply chain, Waugh argued. However, embodied carbon emissions make up around half

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carlo ratti associati and italo rota have collaborated in the design of the MAE museum — a museum dedicated to carbon fiber in placenta, italy.
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In the village of Valojoulx, in the southwest of France, Sapiens architectes has just completed a stone, wood, and glass “cabanon” nestled in the oak forest. The order was simple: a reception house, sometimes for guests (high season), sometimes for artists in residence (low season). Inserted in the slope, the building plants its powerful gables in local stone to the east and west and unfolds large glass surfaces towards the forest, sectioned with wooden mullions.

the luxurious abaca resort is set to break ground in september 2021.
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