Philip Oldfield
@sustainabletall
Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
It’s nearly finished. Gonna be a hell of a elevator ride every day for residents
Looking up…. Don’t ask me to calculate the embodied carbon, I’m tired….
The maddest building I’ve seen since ‘The Line’… except this one got built! The Badaevsky Complex in Moscow puts 9-storey blocks of apartments on 35m-tall steel legs, suspended above a park and historic brewery Architect: Herzog de Meuron
More beautiful brick apartments in Iran, in the city of Mashhad Architects: Rai Atelier
New brick housing in Behestan, Iran, by Boozhgan Architecture Studio The recessed balconies offer shade and privacy, while the brick provides texture
The building is *so* efficient, and there is *so much* solar on the roof and shades, that it will deliver surplus energy to surrounding buildings!
2nd place in the annual brick architecture awards in Iran Apartment building in Bushehr, Iran Architect: Mehdi Baghbani
Want to keep people cool AND generate energy? Solar panel shading systems! This is a new timber-framed office and laboratory in Basel, by Herzog de Meuron
Interesting new brick apartments in Rostock. I’m sometimes surprised a single stair is sufficient for larger blocks like this - but makes for an efficient plan! Loser Lott Architekten
Design concept for new courtyard housing in Barcelona Architect - Alihan Dumankaya
This was a competition design, and it came 2nd, so won’t get built. But it would have had lovely views of all the retained tree canopies!
This is a great trait I’ve seen in a number of Swiss apartment designs The shape of the building is formed around existing trees on the site, so none need to be felled By Fiechter + Salzmann, in Bern
Apartments with bamboo shutters in Kerman, Iran Bamboo was chosen as it was growing in front of the building site… By maoffice
113 new social homes in Rotterdam Some lovely brickwork and details Architecture by HCVA. Photos by Loes van Duijvendijk
A good excuse to eat more olives? “This solution replaces the traditional limestone component of asphalt with biochar derived from olive pits and pine biomass, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 76%”
The exterior. As with a lot of Swiss apartment design there seems to be adaptable shading too.
The plan is super simple. A stair and elevator with an apartment either side. This allows the living spaces to be dual aspect, permitting cross ventilation and more natural light. This is a 4 bedroom home!
61 cooperative apartments in Zurich Triples the density on the current site with new mass timber housing By Continentale and Weyell Zipse- a short thread 🧵
Hanger 3, built of Douglas fir in California, 1943 Google has salvaged 119,000 board feet of this timber, and will use it to build their new mass timber offices in Oregon
11 social housing apartments in Menorca, Spain Built from local materials, stone and timber. Sustainability is not treated as an additional layer of technology, but is holistically considered in the architecture By Josep Ferrando, Simbiotiqa and Vilardell Architecte
5. Is listed as a balcony (so the space next to the staircase) Not much of a balcony mind. Also has a strange picket fence. Weird
Frank Gehry’s proposed performing arts centre in Abu Dhabi I wonder how hot that metal roof will get?
Looks like this if you’re interested www.herzogdemeuron.com/projects/389...
Instead of single stair apartment buildings… How about one stair for every apartment? Herzog de Meuron’s Zellweggerpark Housing, Switzerland