BIG’s CopenHill integrates recreational space with energy infrastructure

Jerry Elengical
1 February 2024

CopenHill is a waste-to-energy power plant by Bjarke Ingels Group that doubles up as an urban landmark. It serves as a recreational space for Copenhageners and a habitat for flora and fauna in the region.

Continental

Sara kulturhus, Skellefteå

Sweden
2021

One of world’s tallest timber buildings is carbon-negative

Kruti Choksi Kothari
25 January 2024

Sara kulturhus is a multifunctional centre with cultural facilities and an attached hotel in Skellefteå, Sweden, and one of the tallest timber structures in the world that is also carbon-negative.

Temperate

Lieu de vie Paris-Saclay University campus

France
2016

Low-cost flexible university campus hub serves as urban shelf close to Paris

Kruti Choksi Kothari
18 January 2024

Lieu de vie is a multifunctional public facility on the new university campus of Paris-Saclay, France. This low-cost building is designed to encourage interactions of diverse communities living near one another, but rarely meeting.

Tropical

Buoyant Housing in Brazil

Brazil
2019

Community housing that floats on a river in the Amazon

Mrinmayee Bhoot
16 November 2023

Vernacular forms and local materials set apart Buoyant Housing, a residential complex for a low-income coastal community in Manaus, Brazil, currently living in perilous and unsafe conditions.

Tropical

Green Lungs Hanoi

Vietnam
2020

Hanoi breathes new life into eroded island landscape

Kruti Choksi Kothari
9 October 2023

ODDO Architects is spearheading an ambitious project to restore part of the subtropical alluvial forests of Hanoi’s Bãi Giữa island, boost air quality and give the battered site a new lease on life.