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Freedom to Build Passive Houses: Art Museum in Ravensburg
The first museum at passive house standard in the world designed by the architects Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei (Stuttgart) is due to open in Ravensburg in March 2013. The new building clearly demonstrates that selecting the passive house option no longer automatically means saying good-bye to aesthetics.
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London 2012 - Velodrome
One of the most elegant new sports halls of Olympia 2012 is the Velodrome by Hopkins Architect. In contrast to various other competition venues, the cycling arena with 6,000 seats created on the former Eastway Cycle Circuit site has been designed as a permanent building.
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From Tradition to Tourist Attraction – Dong Wood Construction
Once seen, never forgotten – the pagoda-covered wind and rain bridges of the Dong people in South China. The wood architecture of the Dong is one of the last remnants of an ancient culture in China.
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Prefabrication – High-Tech and Manual Production
There are strong arguments for prefabrication: it takes place under workshop conditions, protected from the elements and with greater access to automatic machines than on site. Standardization also leads to higher quality in the execution and to lower costs. Greater flexibility is possible; working conditions and security are improved; and the construction period on site is reduced.
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From Stuttgart 21 to Norwegian timber
The long renowned UK-based Fourth Door Magazine has now re-launched two of its web-magazines, Unstructured and Annular.
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Toward CO2 neutrality
Great Britain has four more years to go before all new housing in the country has to be CO2 neutral. How this could work is demonstrated by 'CarbonLight Homes', a semi-detached house in Rothwell designed by HTA Architects.