INSPIRATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR AN AESTHETIC AND MEANINGFUL LIFESTYLE
Toronto’s Quayside development is setting new standards for sustainable urban living. Featuring David Adjaye’s Timber House, urban forests, and climate-neutral design, the waterfront district offers a vision of the city of tomorrow.
Timber construction can be decidedly high-tech, as illustrated by the head office built for SR Bank in Stavanger, Norway. Bjergsted Financial Park offers workplaces that are fit for the future, and it is among Europe’s largest engineered timber buildings.
With Boola Katitjin, Murdoch University in Perth sets a new benchmark for sustainable timber architecture. As the largest multi-storey engineered timber building in the Southern Hemisphere, the project combines innovative design, biophilic principles and a strong commitment to sustainability, diversity and inclusion.
Ten years after its construction, the Tamedia building in Zurich is still one of the most visionary timber engineering structures in the world. Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban revealed the approach behind the outstanding construction to ubm magazin.
Wendelstrand near Gothenburg is a visionary wooden town designed by Snøhetta, combining sustainable architecture, green urban planning, and a self-sufficient lifestyle in a former quarry.
A design “grandmaster” was chosen by the Persian Gulf emirate to create an institution that celebrates its cultural heritage and landscape: the National Museum of Qatar in Doha. For this project, Pritzker prize-winner Jean Nouvel produced an avant-garde building inspired by the desert rose, an ornate formation of crystal clusters with overlapping discs primarily found in dry desert regions. And architect Koichi Takada continued this analogy with nature for the interior design of the gift shop.
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