As the demand of a sustainable lifestyle increases, cities are trying to find strategies to create environmentally friendly communities. From passive designs to recycled materials, architects are turning their attention to climate change and trying to find solutions through architecture and design. — Every building in the world — every home, office, school, factory — needs to be net zero carbon by 2050 to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees C. …

Epic Games, the creators of the Unreal Game Engine, recently acquired Twinmotion, a real-time 3D immersion software that produces high-quality images, panoramas and standard or 360º VR videos in seconds. This is big news in itself, as it gives the company exactly what it needs to get its powerful game engine technology into the hands of architects but the even bigger news is, it’s giving it away for free.

It’s been a while since our last project intro, we thought we’d do another one. With summer in mind, there couldn’t be a better time to introduce you our project of two shipping container houses called Franskraal Strand. — The project is located in Franskraal on the coastal Overstrand region in the Western Cape, South Africa and consists of two houses: X and smaller Y. …

As old school as they are, GIFs can still be a low tech, highly shareable solution to communicate an architectural idea. If you are searching for fun new methods of architectural representation, look no further! The ‘Graphics Interchange Format’, or GIF, is a perfect tool. — In order to explain projects and design decisions properly, architects must use often rely on creative representation techniques instead of words. It’s part of the job. The quality of drawings — simple, complex, or anything in between — is fundamental for the correct reception of the ideas. Digital media has…

Petr Kousal became the winner of the Kaplicky Internship, which supports students of architecture. The reward is a three-month internship in the Adjaye Associates in London. The program for young promising architects is organized by the Bakala Foundation in cooperation with the London Design Museum and the Kaplicky Center Foundation. — As a newly graduated student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University in Brno he took the jury by designing a pavilion in Brno fairs.

Here is a sneak peak of a project currently on the boards in the studio that we will be illustrating over the next several months. — On a marvelous place like a piece of earthly paradise on the south coast of the island of Mallorca, Spain, the client wants a flexible off-grid house that offers him privacy but equally celebrates the unique views. They said: “We want a house that is a podium crowned by an…

Employing state-of-the-art construction methods and inventive design strategies, these contemporary facades seek to restore marble to its former glory. — Timeless, enduring, and stately, marble has been used since ancient Greece and Rome for the most important buildings of civilized society, from temples to bath houses to markets. The expense of quarrying and transporting the stone often constituted the bulk of construction costs, along with the workmanship of shaping and…