© Kei Sugino
Architects: Horibe Naoko Architect Office / Naoko Horibe
Location: Kashiba-Shi, Japan
Project Area: 85.58 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Kei Sugino
© Hiroyuki Hirai
Architects: KINO Architects / Masahiro Kinoshita
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Collaborator : SAK Architects / Yu Sakuma
Structural Engineer: Yasushi Moribe
Project Area: 45.72 sqm
Photographs: Hiroyuki Hirai
© A1Architects – MgA. David Maštálka
Architects: A1 Architects
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: A1Architects – MgA. David Maštálka
© Jiri Havran
Architects: GASA Architects
Location: Oslo, Norway
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 14,500 sqm
Photographs: Jiri Havran
© BaO Architects
Architects: BaO Architects / Benjamin Beller
Location: Gansu, China
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 250 sqm
Photographs: BaO Architects
The traditional wooden construction of Japanese architecture is extremely detailed. Its exacting precision and craftsmanship has stood the test of time for centuries. However, the process of handcrafting each wooden beam with mortises and tenons is quite labor intensive, and with an aging workforce, automation of the production process is key to continuing the tradition. read more »
© Constantine George Pappas AIA Architecture/Planning
Architect: Constantine George Pappas AIA Architecture/Planning
Location: Troy, Michigan, United States
General Contractor: The Dailey Co.
Project Year: 2008
Photography: Constantine George Pappas AIA Architecture/Planning
© Hiroshi Ueda
Architects: Naoi Architecture & Design Office
Location: Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Project Year: 2010
Structural Engineer: Inoue Structural Engineers
Project Area: 133.27 sqm
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda
© Fernando Alda
Architect: Juan Domingo Santos
Location: Lanjarón, Granada, Spain
Project Year: 2009
Collaborators: Julien Fajardo, arquitecto, Isabel Díaz Rodríguez, Carmen Moreno Álvarez y Margarita Martínez Barbero
Technique Architect: Juan Diego Guarderas García
Industrial Engineer: Patricio Bautista Carrascosa
Project Area: 478 square meters (interior) + 32 square meters (wooden pavilion)
Photographs: Fernando Alda
© David Rose
Architect: Constantine George Pappas AIA Architecture/ Planning
Location: Rochester, Michigan, United States
General Contractor: Frank Rewold and Sons, Inc.
Project Area: 21,000 gross sq ft
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: David Rose
© Robin Hayes Photography
Architects: Methodic Practice
Location: Ilford, England
Project Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Robin Hayes Photography
Maris Lagzdins
Architects: Open AD / Zane Tetere
Location: Marupe, Latvia
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 320 sqm
Photographs: Maris Lagzdins
Courtesy of Vincent Snyder Architects
Architects: Vincent Snyder Architects Location: Fredericksburg, Texas, USA Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 2200 sqf Photographs: Courtesy of Vincent Snyder Architects 
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Architects: A1 Architects
Location: Beroun, Czech Republic
Project Team: David Maštálka, Lenka Křemenová
Collaborator: Jakub Filip Novák
Project Area: 115 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: A1 Architects
© Christian Richters
Architects: DP6 Architectuurstudio / Robert Alewijnse
Location: Den Hoorn, The Netherlands
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 426 sqm
Photographs: Christian Richters
© Paula Bailey - http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntiep/
In today’s world “going green” has become a top priority in our society, and sustainable buildings and design are at the forefront of this green revolution. While many designers are focusing on passive and active energy systems, the reuse of recycled materials is beginning to stand out as an innovative, highly effective, and artistic expression of sustainable design. Reusing materials from existing on site and nearby site elements such as trees, structures, and paving is becoming a trend in the built environment, however more unorthodox materials such as soda cans and tires are being discovered as recyclable building materials. Materials and projects featured after the break.
© Kurt Hoerbst
Architects: goya (group of young architects)
Location: Guntramdorf, Austria
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 730 sqm
Photographs: Kurt Hoerbst
© Youngchea PARK
Architects: Hyungnam LIM, Eunjoo ROH, Studio GAON
Locations: Chungcheongnam-do, Korea
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 75.6 sqm
Photographs: Youngchea PARK
Paul McAneary Architects
Architects: Paul McAneary Architects
Location: Victoria, London
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 466 sqm
Photographs: Paul McAneary Architects Ltd
The clients brief in this invited competition was to design two apartments on the top floor of the existing Central London post office and Phillips de Pury art action house in Victoria, London. The client expressed a wish for large volume ‘loft’ spaces and his desire for a contemporary design and functionality. Paul McAneary Architects’ response won the competition with a proposal for expressed natural tectonics through numerous new details, and even developing a new material type of cast timber bronze.
Net Zero Energy Building / Detail Green Books
Detail recently sent us Net Zero Energy Building …from their Green Books series. Like everything Detail does, this books takes a thorough look at the technology surrounding this specific subject. It also, as always, gives great examples from the Virginia Tech Solar
Chase for Space: An Architecture Challenge for the Future / Nejc Trošt
Open publication – Free publishing – More book
“Chase for Space: an architecture challenge for the future is an transdisciplinary book with wide overview of future space…
Strategy Space / a+t: Landscape Urbanism Strategies
Landscape Urbanism is the new black in architecture and this magazine, part of a+t… strategy series, has heads turning. There are a dozen projects and hundreds of ideas in this edition. A recurring them is the manipulation of time throughout
