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Casa al Bosc (House in the Woods) by Andrea + Joan Arquitectes

Rehabilitation of a rural dwelling and its surroundings, as an occasional residence, understood as a refuge integrated into the forest.
The preexisting dwelling is located within a set of disused stone walls, where a Mediterranean forest of pine and oak trees has grown over the years. The proposal seeks the restoration of the relationship between the original construction and this characteristic generic landscape, so typical of the region, deeply rooted on the cultural knowledge.
The building has a rectangular floor plan and two stories, with a small, quite deteriorated shed attached to the rear facade, intended for agricultural use.

Fantastic use of climbers to create a micro-climate for flats by Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture in Bordeaux

The city of Bordeaux has a mild Atlantic climate that works very well for ivy, Virginia creeper, wisteria, and other façade-climbing plants. Bordeaux invested heavily in urban greening after its major redevelopment projects in the 2000s. Many newer buildings use metal trellises specifically designed for vines to grow over façades, creating shaded “green skins.” The city also has lots of tree-lined boulevards, parks, and landscaped tram corridors, so the vegetated architecture fits naturally into the overall look.

These are relatively small interventions on how to bring greenery into established cities.

Hi everyone,
it is weekend so I thought to share some artwork again.
This artwork is called Voronoi Spiral was created/programmed by Reinder using Turtletoy tool

From Wikipedia:
In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. It can be classified also as a tessellation. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators). For each seed there is a corresponding region, called a Voronoi cell comprising all points of the plane closer to that seed than to any other. The Voronoi diagram of a set of points is dual to that set's Delaunay triangulation.

Simple use of jasmine plants to add a bit of greenery to this iconic 1960ties pub outside Tate Modern

https://www.pda.archi/projet/biopark

Designed by the French-Brazilian firm Triptyque Architecture, in collaboration with renowned French architect and designer Philippe Starck, Villa M aims to create a new pact between cities, nature, and health. “We designed Villa M as a naturalist architectural manifesto: that is, a building of a new era, where man is no longer opposed to nature and the living,” state Olivier Raffaëlli and Guillaume Sibaud of Triptyque Architecture.

Since the Parisian authorities launched the “Objective: 100 Hectares”, a program aiming to propagate plant-covered buildings and urban farming, the city has been getting greener from year to year. And the recently built mixed-use complex in the Parisian borough of Montparnasse continues this trend, bringing nature back to Paris

A housing project by H&P Architects, dubbed Flying Vegetation, rises among Vietnam's Thai Binh city where a dense urban fabric is opened up by a shared neighborhood garden. The house is recognized at once by its planted facade that mediates the threshold between interior space and the street and uses vegetation as both screen and living surface.

We also presented our Steel Pocket Pen at the pen show. There was an interest from buyers so we will try to sell it on our website as soon as we fulfill the orders from our backers. The campaign finishes tomorrow.

Hi everyone,

As requested by some of you please find a few more photos from the Stationery Show. We received some great feedback and insights from experts and buyers. And also had a catch-up with fellow pen makers.

And (as expected in London) we got caught in the rain after the show ended.

I just wanted to share a quick photo from the London Stationery Show. The giant pen nib was very popular indeed.

Hi everyone, we were running test on our nib size 6 in Cigar Pen which means another artwork for the plotter.
Todays artwork is called "Displaced, in order" by truax2011.
Created with Turtletoy (displaced grid, horizontal and vertical separated)
Enjoy!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share the latest photos of our own nibs in sizes 5 and 6. We’ll be showing them next week at the Stationery Show alongside our pens.

There are still two small details to finalise before manufacturing, but we’re getting there!

These will be compatible and interchangeable with Schmidt nibs, so you’ll be able to swap nibs and experiment a little.

Also, a larger version of the Tangier pen is coming to accommodate the larger size 6 nibs and suit larger hands. The stucture of that pen is identical with smaller size 5 Tangier.

BFI IMAX was designed by Bryan Avery of Avery Associates Architects and completed in May 1999. 
It was build in the roundabout and climbing plants are creating green canopy around it.

In 2016, Cabinet gallery by THA moved to a new building on Tyers Street in the heart of Vauxhall. The original plan to relocate dates back nearly a decade when Cabinet directors Martin McGeown and Andrew Wheatley began a conversation with the artists with whom they work and their friend Charles Asprey about designing a permanent location for the gallery.

Along the banks of the old arm of the Meuse, a new reception building for the Negenoord nature reserve is designed by GAFPA. In an elongated tower volume, an information point and an exhibition space are stacked on top of each other, encased between two massive concrete cores. Slender TT floors span a free field of ten meters from core to core, leaving the front and rear facades transparent.
A light steel skeleton is built around the concrete building, leaning forward toward the water and wrapped with a cable mesh. Between the building and the second skin, two exterior staircases will be inserted at the heads, winding up from the dike to a public vantage point on the roof.
Over time, the steel structure will overgrow with climbing plants, the building blending into the landscape.

A thoughtful rehabilitation project by Mars Architectes that reconnects past and present: the transformation of Anne Frank College in Antony revisits Jean Nouvel’s original 1980 design while improving energy performance by 38%.

Rather than erase the building’s identity, the intervention embraces its structural rigor, eclectic details, and playful architectural language — proving that renovation can be both sustainable and culturally meaningful.

Architecture that preserves memory while adapting for the future.

The Stadthaus M1 by Barkow Leibinger marks the gate to the Vauban quarter of Freiburg – a “green city” partially automobile free, with an emphasis on alternative and sustainable living and architecture. The task of the competition was to design an apartment building complemented by a hotel and shops at the ground level. The construction of wood and concrete is modeled after a "passive house" standard.

The green rope facade on the south side acts as a living climate buffer: In summer, wisteria, roses, and knotweed provide natural shade. During winter, the leafless plants allow sunlight to pass through and help warm the facade. This creates a vegetative sunscreen that offers dual benefits.

The sustainable approach is also evident in the choice of materials: pre-greyed silver fir and window frames made from PEFC-certified pine wood establish a connection to nature. Vertically arranged wooden fins complement the ensemble, giving the facade a rhythmic quality. In addition to its impressive architecture, the hotel stands out for its commitment to inclusivity, as it employs people with disabilities. Thus, sustainability is not only built into the hotel but also practiced daily.