The new Metropolitan Central Business District is located southwest of Tianjin. Its key element is the iconic 597m tall, 117 storeys of 117 Goldin Financial tower, which provides international Grade A office space and a 350 room five star luxury hotel at the topP&T Group desgin Metropolitan Central Business District in Tianjin
KHED is envisioned to be a world class community for scientific innovation and exceptional quality of life, integrated with the natural environment. It is conceived to be a place that nurtures a creative culture, promotes environmental stewardship and stimulates economic vitality.Hok design a city where man and nature coexist harmoniously
Green knowledge hub for Newcastle
Science Central will be an internationally recognised place of knowledge and innovation focusing on sustainability
Cup half full in Lago do Manso
“Concept for a 200ha luxury resort in the heart of the Pantanal Region presented by ABA”
They give a key contribution to reduce the environmental impact of new development. All buildings have green-roofs -sometimes used as leisure areas. This is a vast and complex intervention, which tries to conceal the large masses of intervention using clear technical options, avoiding a major impact in its surroundings, but yet representing a new cycle and creating a new landmark in the regio
International Living Future Institute
To encourage the creation of Living Buildings, Sites and Communities in countries around the world while inspiring, educating and motivating a global audience about the need for fundamental and transformative change.
Developing safer, cleaner methods of transportation are key components of urban planning. A Brooklyn based architect, Dr. Mitchell Joachim, founded Terreform1, a group committed to exploring and solving the issues surrounding human transportation in an urban setting. Their designs imagine new ecological solutions to communities and vehicles while remaining energy and resource efficient.
Evolution Right Under Our Noses
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: July 25, 2011
A small but growing number of field biologists study urban evolution — the biological changes that cities bring to the wildlife that inhabits them.
Saunders shines a light on lost carvings
Saunders Architecture completes ‘Sun Mountain’ resting plaza for weary travellers
The epitome of sustainable housing
Arkitema scoops sustainable housing project as four Danish firms vie for superb site
A new human era
click to read the full articles in the Economist, or...
”Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too.”
”Science is recognizing humans as a geological force to be reckoned with.”
”Why will good arable land be used to build ESS?… How much electricity will ESS use?” and other FAQs
Answers from: ESS Scandinavia
Why will good arable land be used to build ESS?
- ”It is correct that the topsoil in Skåne is of very high quality. Political decisions will determine what the earth will be used for, where the advantages of preserving the agricultural land must be weighed up against the advantages of each new building. Consideration to be made that this happens for each building or facility on previously unspoilt ground.
- Seen from a longer time perspective, the human being has always demanded more land. Not very many decades ago, neither LTH, Ideon nor the large companies in north-east Lund existed. A hundred years ago, very little of what makes up Lund today existed; no housing, companies nor recreational areas. ESS will require an area as large as a golf course – and there are many golf courses in Skåne.
- When ESS is dismantled after about 40 years in operation, the ESS area can be restored to the condition it is in today, that is, it can be reconverted into agricultural land. This has already been included in the plans.”
How much electricity will ESS use?
- ”Accelerator-based research facilities use a lot of energy. ESS’s yearly power requirement has been estimated at approximately 300 GWh. This is the equivalent of a medium-sized paper mill or another major industry.
- It is the objective of ESS Scandinavia to reduce its energy requirement by 20 per cent through energy-saving measures. The excess heat that arises in the facility will also be able to be reused. ESS Scandinavia is working together with Lunds Energikoncernen AB to find solutions for reusing excess heat in the local district heating system.
- Compared to other accelerator-based laboratories, ESS Scandinavia will both use less energy and act to ensure the used energy is not ventilated directly into the atmosphere via cooling towers.”
Brasilia
On Brasilia’s 50th anniversary, the world’s biggest planned city - and the least Brazilian of Brazil’s cities - has found that overly rigid planning has inadvertently exacerbated some social problems even as the city’s residents make the city more and more typically Brazilian.
For some, the city is a masterpiece of design, the high point of Niemeyer’s career, for others it’s an anti-social, quasi-authoritarian dead zone deprived of welcoming public spaces and dominated by the automobile.
Click on the “source” or the photo to access a fascinating Audio post containing an discussion about Brasilia. It is a must listen!
ComplexCity Project
`This project is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the roads of the city which have been growing and evolving randomly through time, thus composing the complex configuration we experience today.
I perceive the city’s patterns as living creatures that I recompose to form an urban image. `
Hung Out to Dry, A Taxonomy of City Blocks
…In an urbanist twist to the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights, Polo the Venetian regales Khan the Mongolian with glimpses of some fabulous cities in the latter’s huge empire. The stories, collected in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, oscillate between truth and fiction. Each of Polo’s cities displays one unique, defining feature. But these different cities may be nothing more than extrapolated miniatures of the homesick Venetian’s hometown.
Imagined cities built from the fragments of real ones: something similar is happening in Tout bien rangé, a cartography-based artwork by French artist Armelle Caron. It consists of a series of map pairs, one a blind, but recognisably real city map, the other what looks like an assembly kit for that same city, with the its blocks impracticably but neatly arranged by shape and size…
Visit the artist Armelle Caron’s website here.
