Tag: Sustainable Architecture
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We can have art and greenery: Benin City’s Black Muse festival inaugurates sculpture park
Opening a new chapter for Benin City’s arts scene In Benin City, a quiet residential stretch in Iyekogba is becoming a landmark for Nigerian art lovers. For weeks, residents watched a 15-metre-high tower rise from the neighbourhood, a domed bamboo pavilion that promised more than architecture: it signalled the opening act of a new sculpture…
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Dezeen’s Top Five Houses of October 2025: Windowless Facades and Creative Urban Densifications
Introduction: October’s standout residential designs Dezeen’s monthly round-up of the world’s most inspiring houses for October 2025 spotlights five remarkable projects that push the boundaries of contemporary living. A notable through-line is a fascination with privacy, control of light, and adaptive strategies for dense urban environments. Three of the five homes feature windowless facades, a…
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Kinsale €1.5m Home with Windows to the World Unveiled
Life at Ground Level: A Kinsale Home with a World View A new €1.5 million residence in Kinsale is turning heads for more than its price tag. It’s the way the house opens up to the world, the way light threads through each space, and the honest materiality that makes the architecture feel both intimate…
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PH’s Rattan Pavilion Bags Silver at World Expo 2025 for Innovative Exhibit Design
Overview: A Silver Moment for Philippine Exhibit Design The Philippine Pavilion at World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, earned a prestigious silver in the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) self-built pavilion exhibition design category. The winning design highlights a Cebu-woven rattan exterior, a material and craft that connect deeply with Filipino heritage while signaling a…
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From Ground Up: How a Builder Created His Family’s Passive House
What makes a Passive House special? Passive house, or Passivhaus, is a rigorous standard for energy efficiency. It centers on five principles that together deliver a home that is ultra-sustainable, comfortable, healthy, and built to last: superior insulation, airtight construction, high-performance windows and doors, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, and a design that minimizes thermal…
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Pierre de Meuron Advocates for Aesthetic Architecture Between Lake Constance and Lake Geneva
In a striking dialogue shared during the 19h30 segment on RTS, Swiss architect Pierre de Meuron emphasized a crucial issue plaguing the architectural landscape between Lake Constance and Lake Geneva (Léman). He lamented the unsightly proliferation of buildings in this beautiful region, calling out the urgent need for more aesthetic, ambitious, and sustainable architectural designs.…