A Silver Cloud to house a LEED Platinum hotel in prime seafront site in La Coruña, Spain

A Silver Cloud to house a LEED Platinum hotel in prime seafront site that located in La Coruña, Spain, was designed by miyarq. The form of miyarq’s buildings evolves in response to critical drivers and morphs as the project is progressively refined, while respecting the knowledge derived from traditional forms of architecture. The balance of thermal mass, orientation, the aspect of internal... 

Tags: A Coruña, Building engineering, building systems technology, Construction, Engineering, Environment, Environmental design, Green building, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Low-energy building, Passive cooling, Passive solar building design, prime seafront site, Spain, sustainable building, systems technology

R, Anthony Fieldman Architect in New York City, United States

The R. Anthony Fieldman Architect  designed by Perkins+Will is located in New York City, United States.  A building should reveal something exceptional about a specific place, culture or programme; its form should result from an open investigation into that particular context, and its architects should embrace the unexpected discoveries that result from that process. Once it is built, the phenomena... 

Tags: Architecture, Building engineering, Construction, Curtain wall, Engineering, Kuwait University College of Education, Lighting, Low-energy building, New York City, R. Anthony Fieldman Architect, Solar gain, United States

Servus Credit Union Corporate Centre reimagined in Edmonton, Canada

Designed by Manasc Isaac Architects, Manasc Isaac Architects is located in Edmonton, Canada. Located on the south side of Edmonton, Alberta, Manasc Issac transformed a former call centre into a new Corporate Centre for Servus Credit Union, one of Canada’s 50 best managed companies. The building provides administration offices for 400 staff, a data centre and records archive. Expected to achieve... 

Tags: Alberta, Architecture, Building engineering, Canada, Construction, Corporate Centre, Credit unions of Canada, Earthquake engineering, Edmonton, Green building, Isaac Architects, Servus Credit Union, sustainable building

Redondo Beach Container Home in Redondo Beach, CA, United States

Designed by DeMaria Design Associates Inc, Redondo Beach Container Home is located in Redondo Beach, CA, United States. The redeployed containers are a critical element of the transportation infrastructure that facilitates global trade and with the ongoing trade imbalance; millions of containers remain in ports around the USA. Combined with technologies from the neighbouring aerospace industry, the... 

Tags: aerospace industry, Building engineering, California, Construction, Container, Containerization, Containers, DeMaria Design Associates Inc, Engineering, Environment, Intermodal container, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, prefabricated metal roof panels, Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach California, Shipping, Shipping container architecture, transportation infrastructure, United States, Water heating

University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus in Nottingham, United Kingdom

The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus designed by Make Architects is located in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The new energy-efficient campus of the University of Nottingham, due to complete this month, includes three landmark buildings as well as the tallest public art-form in the UK, all designed by Make, a UK-based architectural firm, established by Ken Shuttleworth in 2004. The treated facades... 

Tags: Building biology, Building engineering, Counties of England, energy efficiency, energy-efficient campus, Environment, Heat pumps, HVAC, Ken Shuttleworth, Local government in England, MAKE Architects, MAKE CO. LTD., Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus