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Applied Sustainable Products
Salina Kassam
Gardiner Museum
Applied Products
The Gardiner Museum undertook a transformative renovation of its ground floor to enhance how visitors engage with its collections, programs, and community spaces. The project reimagined the entrance, galleries, maker space, community learning center, and retail areas to create a... Read more
Sebastian van Damme
Valckensteyn
Applied Sustainable Products
Valckensteyn is a mass timber residential building in Rotterdam, designed by international architecture firm Powerhouse Company for housing corporation Woonstad Rotterdam. The project provides 82 affordable rental homes in the post-war district of Pendrecht, combining timber cons... Read more
Derek Swalwell
Oku House
Applied Sustainable Products
Oku is a spatial concept pertaining to the idea of “inwardness.” It is introduced to create a feeling of depth and dimensionality in space. As one moves through it, attention is drawn inward, heightening the sense of exploration and discovery.
This inward-looking spa... Read more
MORFEUS arkitekter
Fredag & Fretland
In the village of Lærdal, along the inner reaches of Norway’s Sognefjord, a former fenced-in warehouse from the 1980s has been transformed by MORFEUS arkitekter into a bakery and café. Fredag & Fretland is more than a commercial conversion; it is an act of... Read more
Paul Vu
Victory Wellness Center
Victory Wellness Center, designed by Los Angeles-based PATTERNS, is the studio’s largest completed project to date and its first comprehensive adaptive reuse commission. The project transforms a 1960s bowstring-truss warehouse into a 42,000-square-foot medical facility. Loc... Read more
Matt Winquist
Kirigami
Applied Sustainable Products
Kirigami, a contemporary winter retreat by Sparano + Mooney Architecture, draws its name from the Japanese art of kirigami. The clients’ appreciation of Japanese culture informed the conceptual framework of the house, shaping its spatial organisation and architectural expre... Read more
David Chatfield
205 North Quay
Applied Sustainable Products
205 North Quay, a climate-responsive commercial tower designed by Hassell, REX, and Richards & Spence, overlooks the Brisbane River. Prioritizing health, it is among Australia’s first commercial buildings to include a dedicated wellness floor, supporting a more holistic... Read more
Images by Kevin Scott
U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara, Mexico
Located in Guadalajara’s Monraz neighbourhood, a new diplomatic facility has been designed to navigate the functional complexities of a diplomatic mission while integrating with its specific urban and environmental context. This multi-building compound, sited on 8.5 acres,... Read more
Nick Dearden
Six Columns
Applied Sustainable Products
31/44 Architects designed Six Columns as a home for its architect owner and family. The house in Crystal Palace, London, occupies a previously undeveloped side garden on a residential street in south-east London. Set among predominantly two-storey houses, it provides over 160 squ... Read more
Garces
Douro Wood House
Applied Sustainable Products
Perched a forested hillside in Portugal’s UNESCO-listed Douro Valley, the 60-square-metre Wood House by MJARC Arquitectos is a modular prefabricated timber retreat that demonstrates how small-scale architecture can achieve comfort and environmental performance through caref... Read more
Eva Bloem
Bever Basecamp HQ
Applied Sustainable Products
On the edge of Pijnacker, beside the De Groenzoom nature reserve, the Dutch outdoor retailer Bever has opened its new headquarters and distribution centre. Designed by Bureau Kroner, with interiors by KuóStudio and landscape by Smartland, the complex embodies Bever’s... Read more
Manuel Sá
Pina Contemporânea
Applied Sustainable Products
The Pina Contemporânea project in São Paulo reinterprets a former educational complex as a contemporary art museum while maintaining connections to Jardim da Luz and the surrounding cultural network. Designed by Arquitetos Associados, the intervention follows a strat... Read more
