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Allen Center for the Creative Arts and Technology

Low Carbon Products
SunGuard SNX 60
SunGuard SNX 60 Guardian Glass
GWP A1–A3 2.72 kg CO₂e/m²
Honext Acoustic Panels
Honext Acoustic Panels HONEXT
GWP A1–A3 -730.00 kg CO₂e/m²
Mellowed Red Sovereign Stock
Mellowed Red Sovereign Stock Wienerberger
GWP A1–A3 213.00 kg CO₂e/m²
Rockfacade
Rockfacade ROCKWOOL International A/S
GWP A1–A3 2.11 kg CO₂e/m²
Threshold House
Applied Sustainable Products
London based Studio McW has extended and redesigned the lower ground floor of Threshold House, a semi-detached, split-level Victorian house in the Islington district of London. The project reconfigures the previously constrained lower level to support both everyday living and lar... Read more
Hotel Masía Can Farrés
Hotel Masía Can Farrés is located within the Sierra de Montserrat Natural Park, a protected landscape northwest of Barcelona. The project involves the rehabilitation of a 15th-century farmhouse into a rural hotel, accompanied by landscape interventions that respond... Read more
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities forms part of the University of Oxford’s long-term redevelopment of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, a ten-acre former hospital site to the north of Oxford’s city centre. Since 2009, the site has been part of an ex... Read more

Project Spotlight

Housing block in Leiria
Applied Sustainable Products
Bureau des Mésarchitectures, led by Didier Fiúza Faustino with Sónia Pinto Sousa, Pascal Mazoyer, and Kevin Conlin, has completed its first housing block in Leiria, Central Portugal. The project combines the renovation of an early twentieth-century house with... Read more
L'Échouage Residence
“Grounding is a deliberate nautical manoeuvre that consists in allowing a vessel to rest on the seabed or along the shoreline. Dependent on the tides, it requires a precise understanding of their rhythms before guiding the bow towards land. Anchoring ensures the boat’... Read more
SWITCH – New Simon Headquarters
An obsolete factory in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona has been carefully restored by Spanish architectural studio b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos (b720). Once the Simon electrical material factory, the building has been transformed into Simon’s new co... Read more
Dulnain
In the Highlands near Inverness, Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has rebuilt and extended a traditional farmhouse. Formerly a granite stone cottage that had fallen into disrepair, the building has been reconfigured as a three-bedroom family home overlooking the River... Read more
Aurora 10 Building
Designed by Tiago do Vale Architects, the Aurora 10 Building in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, addresses urban design challenges common to suburban housing developments. João Morgado   Urban context and intentThe building is located within a suburban residential fabr... Read more
Showboat Resort Atlantic City
The new 100,000-square-foot park called the Island Waterpark is located at the Showboat Resort Atlantic City.The retractable roof enclosure by OpenAire opens to the adjacent boardwalk which includes everything from an exclusive adults lounge to a zip line and suspended coaster ov... Read more
A Temple of Play
Reasonable and Beautiful   Founded in 2012, Zurich-based Lukas Imhof Architektur has built a reputation for projects that balance reason and beauty. Known for his sensitive renovations and his teaching at ETH Zurich, where he authored Midkomfort, a reflection on architectu... Read more
Samenbouw Overhoeks Rotterdam
Overhoeks consists of an apartment building along Paul Krugerstraat and family houses along Laan op Zuid and Hilledijk. Between the houses and beneath the apartment building there is a covered, shared parking garage, providing parking spaces for a number of dwellings as well as s... Read more
Residence SAB
Designed by Govaert & Vanhoutte architects, Residence SAB in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, is a single-family home set within a wooded landscape adjacent to a golf course, where topography, mature trees, and an existing forest path informed the architectural approach. Rather t... Read more