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	LIVING COMPLEX DAVIDKOVA, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC [ more ]

	EAST BOHEMIA-RESIDENCE AND STUDIO, NACHOD, CZECH REPUBLIC [ more ]

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	Extension de Roland-Garros [ more ]

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	Woluwe Cultural Village, Brussels, Belgium [ more ]

Next presentation of Last Call for Planet Earth:
16 January, Germany

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Building know-how

“Building know-how. Innovation in the building fabric” was centre-stage at the new SaieSpring exhibition just held in Bologna. With examples of the expertise of world-renowned institutions and professionals, this exhibition focused on the role of technological innovation. The world of architecture is related to the theme of the vocabulary and image, as well as to the technologies that have to turn ideas into reality,” says Fabrizio Bianchettie, the commissioner of the exhibition. “The performance of materials has for centuries constituted the main constraint for architects. Such limits are nowadays overcome by research. The transformation has been ‘silent’,” he adds. This is due to the gradual replacement of traditional products, but also because the architectural debate has always been based on an ideology that considers materials as simple means of expression. And yet, the increase in architectural designs, materials and products is more symptomatic of the age we live in. The plethora of solutions is surely an effect of the globalisation of the demand. It is certain that the incessant progress of technologies, in particular nanotechnologies, make the capacities and possibilities of all materials all but infinite: intelligent interfaces, sensory surfaces, self-cleaning materials and inflatable membranes are redefining our environment. The impulsive need to save the plant has led to new materials but, as Quentin Heslinger of matériO underscores, materials are not good or bad in and of themselves, but everything depends on how they are used. We must systematically consider their life cycle, minimise their weak points, and put them to the challenge of constant improvement. It is vital, above all, to accept the complexity of the world we live in and the imbrication of the various levers at our disposal. In brief, we must admit that there can be no simplistic and short-sighted answers to the challenges of the today.

Masterplan and Offices for Meath County Council and Navan Town Council
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Reappraisal of one of the water towers in the city of Latina in Italy [ more ]

Union Station 2020 : A Crossroads for the High-Speed Rail City
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Design For The Children
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Taipei Performing Arts Center
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abitarECOstruire
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Austrian architect Georg W. Reinberg has for many years applied an ecological approach to architecture entailing the active or passive use of solar energy, the promotion of healthy materials and prefabricated structure, geothermia and green roofs on a daily basis in his lectures and courses on solar architecture that he gives throughout the world...

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Portrait of the month
	Francisco Mangado [ more ]

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	Chapelle des Diaconesses [ more ]

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ECO BUILDING 2008

(24 – 26/09/2008) - Zaragoza

International Exhibition and Conference on Bioclimatic Architecture Sustainable Construction and Energy ...