Shelter home for the Homeless in Pamplona, Spain

Designed by Larraz Arquitectos, Shelter home for the Homeless is located in Pamplona, Spain. What the construction of the new Shelter Home for the Homeless offers, beyond satisfying the needs of shelter and food for the residents, is an opportunity for improving the quality of life of a socially excluded group, whose needs reach further [...]

Tags: Busking, Economics, excluded, food, Homelessness, Humanitarian aid, Pamplona, Personal life, Psychology, Schizophrenia, Shelter Home, Socioeconomics, Spain

Butler College Dormitories in Princeton, United States

Butler College Dormitories that located in Princeton, United States, was designed by PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS Architects LLP. The complex has been carefully conceived in scale, material, and detail so as to offer the much-needed new dormitory space in an architectural form characterised by warmth, eventfulness, and informality aimed at creating a connective thread [...]

Tags: Architecture, Bathroom, Butler, Dormitory, Education, food emporium, Freed & Partners Architects LLP, Pei Cobb, Princeton, Rooms, United States

Naypyidaw, New ‘Orwellian’ capital built on foundations of famine and poverty in Naypyidaw, Burma

Naypyidaw, New ‘Orwellian’ capital built on foundations of famine and poverty  is located in Naypyidaw, Burma. Burma is building a new capital. While millions of its inhabitants are still reeling from the after effects of Cyclone Nargis and the ensuing massive rise in food prices, the military government, led by dictator Than Shwe, is building [...]

Tags: Asia, Burma, Cyclone Nargis, food prices, Government, Myanmar, Natural Disaster, Naypyidaw, Politics, Than Shwe

Priory Church in Wales Primary School in Brecon, United Kingdom

Located in Brecon, United Kingdom, Brecon, United Kingdom was designed by Petersen Williams LLP. The requirement of the Governors for their new school was that it would provide; ‘children of the next generation and of the locality, with a school which encapsulates all that is expected to ensure a fitting environment for education in the [...]

Tags: Brecon, Education, food technology, Geography of the United Kingdom, Geography of Wales, Petersen Williams LLP, United Kingdom, Wales

The Bertschi School, Living Science Building in Capitol Hill, United States

The Bertschi School, Living Science Building designed by KMD Architects is located in Capitol Hill, United States.  The building collects rainwater and distributes it through an exposed river and a series of pipes in the classroom for educational purposes. The water is collected in separate potable and irrigation cisterns. From there, it can be treated [...]

Tags: Appropriate technology, Bertschi School, composting, Drinking water, Environment, Environmental engineering, food, Greywater, Irrigation, Living Science Building, Rain garden, Stormwater, Sustainability, Toilet, United States, Water, Water pollution