Sustainability meets chic. Building a better, more beautiful future for our planet
Green architecture used to be on the fringes, but it has gone mainstream and this new volume shows how, why, and where. This is not a technical handbook, but rather a guided tour from one end of the globe to another where sustainability has become both chic and indispensible. Solar panels and double glazing are taking a dent out of the high cost of energy.
As always in the Architecture Now books, you can discover the latest realizations of established stars like Peter Zumthor and Bernard Tschumi, but also catch up on the rising new generation of architects, from Korea to Vietnam, from Los Angeles to Berlin. Green Architecture Now! Volume 2 is the only place where a tunnel of flower pots by Olafur Eliasson and a Waste to Energy plant with a ski slope on top by BIG come together with a bang.
Featured architects and practices include:
Ateliers 115, Green Office, Meudon, France
Hagy Belzberg, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ben Wood Studio Shanghai, Naked Stables Private Reserve, Moganshan, Zhejiang Province, China
BIG, Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant, Copenhagen, Denmark
BNIM ,Omega Center for Sustainable Living, Rhinebeck, New York
Brooks + Scarpa, Yin-Yang House, Venice, California, USA
Centerbrook, Lakewood House, Northeast USA
DécaLaage, Refuge du Goûter, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France
Dekleva Gregorič, Clifftop House, Maui, Hawaii, USA + Razgledi Perovo Housing, Kamnik, Slovenia
Djuric+Tardio, Eco-Sustainable House, Antony, France
Ecosistema Urbano, Ecopólis Plaza, Rivas Vaciamadrid, Madrid, Spain
Olafur Eliasson, Dufttunnel, Wolfsburg, Germany + The Flower Archway, Botanical Garden, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Dick van Gameren, Villa 4.0, ’t Gooi, The Netherlands
Gigon/Guyer, Prime Tower, Zurich, Switzerland
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, Broussard House, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
HMC Architects, Frontier Project, Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA
Hopkins Architects, Kroon Hall, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, + New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Import-Export Architecture, Fragile Lab, Antwerp, Belgium + Ter Pitte, Antwerp, Belgium
ingenhoven architects, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jensen & Skodvin Architects, Thermal Bath, Therapy Center, and Hotel, Bad Gleichenberg, Austria
Johnsen Schmaling Architects, OS House, Racine, Wisconsin, USA + Ferrous House, Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, USA
K-Studio, IBar Bouni, Pilos, Costa Navarino, Greece
Wolfgang Kergassner, SAP “Haus im Park,” St. Ingbert, Germany
Kjellgren Kaminsky, Villa Nyberg, Borlänge, Sweden
Mathias Klotz, Nicanor Parra Library, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
Kengo Kuma, Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum, Yusuhara-cho, Takaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan
Lake | Flato, Livestrong Foundation, Austin, Texas, USA + Shangri-La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Orange, Texas, USA
LEAPfactory, Gervasutti Refuge, Mont Blanc, Courmayeur, Italy
Ken Sungjin Min, Ananti Club Seoul, Gapyeoung-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
realities:united, Flussbad, Berlin, Germany
Todd Saunders, Squish Studio, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada + Tower Studio, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Head Office of the Federation of Korean Industries, Seoul, South Korea
Werner Sobek, D10, Biberbach an der Riss, Germany + F87, Berlin, Germany
TAO, Gaoligong Museum of Handcraft Paper, Tengchong, Yunnan, China
Tham & Videgård, Tellus Nursery School, Telefonplan, Stockholm, Sweden + Harads Tree Hotel (Mirrorcube), Harads, Sweden
Threefold Architects, Ladderstile House, Richmond, London, UK
Bernard Tschumi, Alésia Museum and Archeological Park, Alésia, France
Unsangdong, E+ Green Home, Jeon Dae, Cheo In, Po Gok, Yong In, Kyeong Gi, South Korea
Vector Architects, CR Land Guanganmen Green Technology Showroom, Beijing, China
Vo Trong Nghia, Bamboo Wing, Dai Lai, Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam + Stacking Green, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
WOHA, The Met, Bangkok, Thailand + Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia
