Can rubble become architecture? Five buildings say it can
Recycled paper, demolished villages, post-earthquake rubble and disused shipping containers: five projects show how waste can be transformed into a creative, economic and cultural resource.
Focus Green
Materials, processes and products for responsible design
Energy efficiency meets Heritage on Lake Como
The redevelopment of the roof of the Grand Hotel Menaggio improves comfort and energy performance of the building while preserving its historical value.
Is sustainable architecture even possible?
Between submerged cities, high-altitude airports and inadequate regulations, the voices of Ghotmeh, Gang, Ma, Mandrup, BIG, Snøhetta and others reveal that sustainability is not a single concept. From the Holcim Awards emerges a landscape of differences, contradictions and new possibilities.
The perfect material doesn't exist
Durability, longevity and repairability are the key indicators of sustainability, which must be assessed across the product’s life cycle.
Alive and growing: architectures made of trees
The building made of living trees designed by Terreform One rethinks architecture as an inter-species habitat that could even be providential today.