Foster + Partners has designed a major new waterfront development for Rimini, Italy, a seaside city in Italy. The plan calls for a new seaside promenade, a 1,000-foot-long pier, a hotel tower, and a museum for filmmaker Federico Fellini, a Rimini native and famed director of 8½ and La Dolce Vita. click here to see the rest »
Dustin Feider designed the O2 Treehouse to serves many purposes. This structure is a great place to relax, reflect, do yoga, meditate, read, work on a computer or entertain company.
TAM Architects in Tokyo designed this beautiful timber house in 2007. Located in Yokohama, The use of natural materials including timber and stone give a timeless quality, appropriate for the building’s use.
CH2 is the City of Melbourne’s landmark green office building. Located at Little Collins Street, Melbourne, the building was designed by City of Melbourne and DesignInc Melbourne. With its Six Star Design Rating granted by the Green Building Council of Australia, CH2 is one of the cleanest and greenest buildings on earth.
Visit Council House 2 (CH2) website - here.
Rodrigo Verdugo N. was the architect of this lodge that emulates a volcano. Located in the middle of a forest, the Baobab Hotel was built around a native tree. This structure poses a snail with a ramp central movement and a panoramic elevator on the inside.
Visit Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve website - here.
Triptyque Architects designed this building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The concept is quite simple but neat: there are two major blocks of plant connected by a bridge and cut by metal, concrete and glass. Among the blocks is a square internal space opens as a local community, meetings and exchanges.
Visit Harmonia//57 project website - here.
The house represent a style of living that is almost absent from Thailand - with modern building, it is hard to find older houses that are still in use. The design concept is simplicity, compatible with hot climate in the days before there was electricity and oscillating fans and definitely before air condition.
Advanced Cool Tower Design
Enjoy if you are interested in zero energy consuming houses, or if you plan to build one, or just for fun.
Cool towers use gravity to move cool air without any fans, although fans may be used to reduce the size of the towers. The most common cool towers do this by having a wet pad medium in the top of the tower. Since cool air is heavier than warm air, it will fall, creating its own airflow. Wind is not required, but will improve the airflow in a cool tower.
Visit the Passive Air Conditioning website - here.
