Plate 002 · Africa
Lycée Schorge
2016
002 · Koudougou, Burkina Faso
sustainabilityLycée Schorge
A secondary school of laterite and eucalyptus, classrooms around a palaver tree.
Bobo / Mossi — Balafon xylophone suite
Corridor 06 · Sustainability
The planet was never the site. It was the client.
What would you raise if the earth had to outlive you?
44 monuments in this corridor, ordered as the world is.
Rebuild a monument as sustainabilityAfrica
Burkina Faso2
Cameroon1
Kenya1
Plate 025 · Africa
Startup Lions Campus
2021
025 · Turkana, Kenya
sustainabilityStartup Lions Campus
A campus of towers that catch wind, a digital school in a dry land.
Luo traditional — Kenge Kenge, orutu climate
South Africa1
Asia
Japan2
Plate 137 · Asia
ACROS Fukuoka
1995
137 · Fukuoka, Japan
sustainabilityACROS Fukuoka
A government building that became a stepped forest, because a park was the real brief.
Yatsuhashi Kengyō — Rokudan no Shirabe
Plate 165 · Asia
Pasona Urban Farm
2010
165 · Tokyo, Japan
sustainabilityPasona Urban Farm
An office growing tomatoes in the lobby, because a company decided work should include harvest.
Gagaku — Etenraku
Philippines1
Singapore5
Plate 194 · Asia
CapitaSpring
2022
194 · Singapore, Singapore
sustainabilityCapitaSpring
A tower with a forest in its waist, so an office could have weather.
Claude Debussy — Pagodes
196 · Singapore, Singapore
sustainabilityGardens by the Bay
A city grew a forest of light because the jungle was not enough.
Claude Debussy — Pagodes
Plate 198 · Asia
Kampung Admiralty
2017
198 · Singapore, Singapore
sustainabilityKampung Admiralty
A vertical village of the elderly, a medical centre and a rooftop farm.
Traditional Malay — Di Tanjong Katong
Plate 199 · Asia
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
2010
199 · Singapore, Singapore
sustainabilityKhoo Teck Puat Hospital
A hospital of gardens and monsoon windows, because healing was asked to include weather.
Traditional Malay — Di Tanjong Katong
Plate 201 · Asia
Parkroyal Pickering
2013
201 · Singapore, Singapore
sustainabilityParkroyal Pickering
A hotel of hanging gardens, because density was asked to breathe.
Traditional Malay — Di Tanjong Katong
Europe
Denmark3
Plate 267 · Europe
8 House
2010
267 · Copenhagen, Denmark
sustainability8 House
A bow-tie of apartments you can bicycle to the top of.
Carl Nielsen — Helios Overture
270 · Copenhagen, Denmark
sustainabilityCopenHill
The city's waste learned to become a mountain.
Carl Nielsen — Helios Overture
Plate 272 · Europe
Mountain Dwellings
2008
272 · Copenhagen, Denmark
sustainabilityMountain Dwellings
Apartments terraced over a parking mountain, planted like a south-facing field.
Carl Nielsen — Helios Overture
Italy1
374 · Milan, Italy
sustainabilityBosco Verticale
You planted a forest in the air and asked it to pay rent.
Olivier Messiaen — Le Loriot, from Catalogue d'oiseaux
Netherlands2
Plate 400 · Europe
The Edge Amsterdam
2015
400 · Amsterdam, Netherlands
sustainabilityThe Edge Amsterdam
An office that knows every desk's light, once called the greenest in the world.
Simeon ten Holt — Canto Ostinato
Plate 402 · Europe
Kinderdijk Windmills
1740
402 · Kinderdijk, Netherlands
sustainabilityKinderdijk Windmills
A line of mills that kept a country from drowning by catching the wind.
Jacob Obrecht — Missa Ave Regina Caelorum
Norway3
Plate 412 · Europe
Svart Hotel
under construction
412 · Holandsfjorden, Norway
sustainabilitySvart Hotel
A ring on a fjord, designed to be the first energy-positive hotel.
Edvard Grieg — Solveig's Song
Plate 415 · Europe
Powerhouse Telemark
2020
415 · Porsgrunn, Norway
sustainabilityPowerhouse Telemark
A tilted roof of photovoltaics, a building as a machine that still has a face.
Edvard Grieg — Solveig's Song
Plate 416 · Europe
Powerhouse Brattørkaia
2019
416 · Trondheim, Norway
sustainabilityPowerhouse Brattørkaia
An office that produces more energy than it consumes, a black crystal on a northern harbour.
Edvard Grieg — Morning Mood
Switzerland1
Plate 479 · Europe
Monte Rosa Hut
2009
479 · Zermatt, Switzerland
sustainabilityMonte Rosa Hut
A crystal of timber on a glacier, living on almost nothing.
Traditional alphorn — Le Lac de Come, climate / Alphorn echo