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Climate & Resources
How can architecture and the construction industry combat the climate crisis? What concepts and solutions do we need to make the system more sustainable? In this online section, we present best-practice examples for the circular economy and CO2 reduction, highlight designs that work with low-tech and recycling, and look at how to achieve optimal solutions with fewer resources.
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DETAIL Climate Forum
DETAIL Climate Forum 2026
The Detail Climate Forum 2026 focuses on building with existing structures and building with sustainability, with the aim of initiating and further developing industry-specific discourse on these topics.
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New address with a striking effect
Busch & Takasaki Architects Create Wood and Copper Sculpture in Hamburg
A striking pavilion made of wood and copper now forms the new entrance to the Hamburg Energy Networks campus. Designed by Busch & Takasaki Architects in collaboration with gmp, it combines sustainable construction, clear design and a strong identity.
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Danish architectural tradition
Heatherhill Beach House by Norm Architects
The Heatherhill Beach House combines Danish tradition with modern design, featuring clean lines, natural materials, and deliberate perspectives that open up spaces to the landscape, creating an understated elegance.
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Resources, Environmentally friendly, Ecological, Sustainable architecture, Energy efficiency, CO2-neutral, Circular economy, Recycling, Emission-free, Climate-friendly solutions, Climate-friendly construction
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Timber buildings
Sustainable building, timber construction, climate-neutral, CO2-neutral, timber construction, ecological building material, natural building materials, renewable raw materials, timber facade, wood processing, energy efficiency, climate-friendly, natural materials, timber architecture, sustainable timber construction, ecological timber construction projects, CO2 balance, timber construction, timber frame construction, sustainable forestry, circular economy, building ecology, climate protection, sustainable timber construction solutions.
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Danish architectural tradition
Heatherhill Beach House by Norm Architects
The Heatherhill Beach House combines Danish tradition with modern design, featuring clean lines, natural materials, and deliberate perspectives that open up spaces to the landscape, creating an understated elegance.
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New address with a striking effect
Busch & Takasaki Architects Create Wood and Copper Sculpture in Hamburg
A striking pavilion made of wood and copper now forms the new entrance to the Hamburg Energy Networks campus. Designed by Busch & Takasaki Architects in collaboration with gmp, it combines sustainable construction, clear design and a strong identity.
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Functional log cabin
Reception Building for the Vintgar Gorge by Ofis Arhitekti
The architectural practice Ofis has created a new entrance area for the Vintgar Gorge in Triglav National Park. The gorge is one of Slovenia's most popular natural attractions.
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DETAIL Readers' Favourites 2025
The Most-Clicked Articles of the Year
At the end of the year, we present the highlights chosen by our readers: two detached houses in Switzerland and a holiday home in De Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands
Timber buildings
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New address with a striking effect
Busch & Takasaki Architects Create Wood and Copper Sculpture in Hamburg
A striking pavilion made of wood and copper now forms the new entrance to the Hamburg Energy Networks campus. Designed by Busch & Takasaki Architects in collaboration with gmp, it combines sustainable construction, clear design and a strong identity.
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Danish architectural tradition
Heatherhill Beach House by Norm Architects
The Heatherhill Beach House combines Danish tradition with modern design, featuring clean lines, natural materials, and deliberate perspectives that open up spaces to the landscape, creating an understated elegance.
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Functional log cabin
Reception Building for the Vintgar Gorge by Ofis Arhitekti
The architectural practice Ofis has created a new entrance area for the Vintgar Gorge in Triglav National Park. The gorge is one of Slovenia's most popular natural attractions.
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DETAIL Readers' Favourites 2025
The Most-Clicked Articles of the Year
At the end of the year, we present the highlights chosen by our readers: two detached houses in Switzerland and a holiday home in De Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands
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Experimental Research Building
PAKK Pavilion in Tallinn
Run by the Estonian Academy of Arts, the PAKK Pavilion in Tallinn is an experimental laboratory. It focuses on research into timber construction, structures, and facades.
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Experiment in hybrid timber construction
Boarding House in Mexico City by CRB Arquitectos
An eight-storey hybrid timber building on Avenida Álvaro Obregón is an eye-catching addition to Mexico City's townscape. Its regular facade gives an indication of the nearly 60 one-bedroom apartments inside, some of which are offered as holiday flats for overnight guests.
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Recycling, Sustainability, Resource-saving, Energy-efficient, Climate-friendly building, Green technologies, Environmentally friendly building products, CO2 savings, Green reference projects, Climate-neutral products, Low-emission solutions, Sustainable product innovations, Environmentally certified products, Sustainable building examples, Circular economy, Sustainable material mix, Energy-saving technologies, Ecological building products, Climate neutrality, Sustainable architecture, Resource conservation, Sustainable building technology, CO2 reduction, Environmental compatibility, Emission-free products
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Circular materials from Milan
Recycling, Reuse and Circular Materials
Circular design was the dominant theme at Milan Design Week. Here we present four projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to the sustainable use of material cycles.
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Advertorial
Flexible Seating for New Work Environments
Mobile and easy-to-move to where it's needed: the FULD folding chair, designed by Stefan Diez for Herman Miller, adds a missing element to existing workspace typologies.
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Hybrid construction with box beam ceilings
Grids in the Atrium
Behind the Corten steel facade of an office and training building in Amsterdam is a timber supporting structure made of glulam with ceiling and roof elements from Lignatur.
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Hybrid Apartment Building in Amsterdam by Olaf Gipser Architects
The Polder Buiksloterham industrial park in Amsterdam is to become a showcase urban district with closed material cycles. This is also what the new hybrid residential building Stories by Olaf Gipser Architects stands for.
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BIM
Open BIM for Wooden Skyscraper Haut
Haut is a new residential building in Amsterdam. The 73-m-high timber hybrid building with 21 floors has been designed by Dutch architectural firm Team V Architectuur in cooperation with Arup Netherlands.
Clay buildings
Earth building, earth plaster, natural building materials, earth architecture, resource conservation, earth building techniques, ecological building material, earth wall, earth ceiling, earth brick, earth plaster techniques, earth design, earth processing, earth thermal insulation, earth plaster surfaces, Climate-friendly building material, Natural interior design, Earthen house, Earthen design, Ecological earthen building projects, Sustainable earthen architecture, Earthen construction, Ecological interior design, Earthen as CO2 storage, Energy efficiency, Climate neutrality.
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Strengthening the community
Rammed Earth Tennis in Ghana
DeRoche Projects' Backyard Community Club in Accra is a pioneer in the use of prefabricated rammed earth systems for construction. It is also helping to develop a tennis culture beyond the elite.
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Brutalist residential collage
Renovation of a Terraced House in Munich's Olympic Village
Birdwatching Architects have renovated a brutalist terraced house in Munich's Olympic Village, upgrading it to meet ecological standards and transforming it into a colourful residential landscape with a collage-like character.
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A line in the landscape
Residence in Morocco by Leopold Banchini Architects
It is single-storey, windowless and easily 80 m long: the Dar el Farina house near Marrakech radically breaks with conventional notions of comfort and is energy self-sufficient.
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Refurbishment
Nachhaltige Sanierung, Energieeffiziente Sanierung, Ressourcenschonende Renovierung, Klimafreundliche Sanierungsprojekte, Ökologische Sanierungslösungen, Altbausanierung, Umweltfreundliche Modernisierung, CO2-neutrale Sanierung, Nachhaltige Dämmung, Sanierung mit natürlichen Baustoffen, Energiesparende Sanierung, Sanierungstechnologien, Nachhaltige Gebäudesanierung, Kreislaufwirtschaft in Sanierungsprojekten, Ökologischer Umbau, Nachhaltige Modernisierung, Klimaschutz in der Sanierung, Nachhaltige Altbausanierung, Nachhaltige Renovierungsprojekte, Ressourcenschutz in der Sanierung, Umweltverträgliche Sanierung, Nachhaltige Bausanierung, Ökologische Baurenovierung.
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A house of many roofs
Aquatic Centre Renovation near Rennes by Raum
The swimming hall in the Breton town of Saint-Méen-le-Grand is a complex of many small gabled roofs. The Raum studio has now expanded the centre and covered it with a minimalist shell of wood and slate.
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Promising transformation
Renovation of a Single-Family Home in Brittany by Parages
On the coast of Brittany, the young architecture practice Parages radically transformed a residential property from the 1970s. Behind the new wooden exterior shell, bright, open-plan living spaces now open towards the sea.
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A landmark of postwar Hamburg
Modernization of the Alsterschwimmhalle Hamburg by GMP Architekten
After forty years, the time had come: GMP Architekten have comprehensively modernized, renovated and expanded the Alsterschwimmhalle in Hamburg.
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