Global Carbon Footprint

Global Carbon Emissions by Stanford Kay

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Skin of Architecture: Supergraphic

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Lettering Large: Art and Design of Monumental Typography, by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić The Monacelli Press, 2013 Hardcover, 224 pages

Most of the examples of monumental typography collected in the book are fairly recent, but Heller and Ilić do acknowledge the history of large letters on buildings and in space, be it inscriptions on the buildings of ancient Rome or early modern attempts to synthesize architecture and graphic design. If one thing comes across while imbibing the many examples in the book's 240 pages, it is the blurring of the boundaries between art, architecture, typography, graphic design, and even landscape in many contemporary settings. -- A Weekly Dose of Architecture

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Fire Station #4, Columbus, Indiana, USA, 1967 designed by Robert Venturi

The building committee requested an ordinary building that was easy to maintain. Venturi’s design was a trapezoidal-shaped structure of cinderblock, red unglazed brick, white glazed brick and glass. The 37 foot hose drying tower located at front center provides a focal point to the otherwise low utilitarian building. Venturi made the sides and rear of the building as simple as possible and treated the front as if it were a sign. It briefly attracts your attention as you speed past on the busy road. Venturi has described buildings like this as “decorated sheds”, simple, even boring buildings that use signs or decorative elements to describe the function of the building. In this case the hose drying tower with the giant number on top, the white brick and the large flagpole in front convey a sense of civic importance to the building. It is meant to look like a fire station and not to convey any other image. -- 52 weeks of  Columbus, Indiana

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The New York Times printing plant, College Point, Queens, New York, USA, 1997 designed by Ennead Architects

Bold colors and graphics enliven the long highway facade, and the skin of the plant employs simple and inexpensive materials in unpredictable ways, becoming a vibrant billboard along the adjacent highway. -- architect's web site

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House of Terror Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2002 designed by Attila F Kovacs, Architeckton RT

....the exhibition hall and the treatment of the outside is by Attila F Kovács, who painted it black, embedded ceramic miniatures of victims at eye height around the base and added the cornice — what?  brise-soleil?  an extended plane that casts the word terror over each façade: a complex reading because it uses sunlight, light, enlightenment to cast an inverted shadow over something already historically shadowed. The word cast is not hopeful, despite the sunlight, it too is dark. -- onsite review

Source: Roland Halbe archdaily.com

Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2004 designed by Morphosis

A graphic sign marks the building as 100 South Main Street where layers of opacity and transparency as well as 2D and 3D typography interplay to designate the space to the public. The public spaces are located on ground level and include an exhibition gallery, a large public art piece, retail stores and a cafeteria. -- ArchDaily

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Palomar Welcome Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2008 designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects

A long translucent glass scrim with supergraphic etching wraps the windowless face of the existing brick building, creating an elegant, immaterial facade that transcends the distinction between building and signage. Illuminated from behind with off-the-shelf fluorescent strip lights, the scrim transforms the building into an urban Laterna Magica, a beacon projecting its message of change into the neighborhood poised for a renaissance. The south-facing scrim also creates a thermal buffer for the building, reducing the solar impact on the building envelope during the summer while providing an additional protective layer in colder months. -- ArchDaily

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Agave Library, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2009 designed by will bruder+PARTNERS

With its torquing false metal scrim curving along the site’s eastern edge of 36th avenue, the Library’s ‘cowboy front’ gives scale, presence, and distinction commensurate with it position in the community. Constructed in the tradition of the old lathe houses of Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden using off-the-shelf galvanized hat channels, the scale and form of the scrim also recalls the tradition of drive-in movie theaters so common across Post-War American suburbs. -- ArchDaily

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Multipurpose Centre Valle De Salazar, Navarra, Spain, 2011 designed by Gutiérrez – ​De La Fuente Arquitectos

....three materials applied: steel sheets (industrial context), pinewood (economical and cultural context) and the local limestone (local and sustainable context).  -- ArchDaily

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Auditorium in Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, 2011 designed by Selgas Cano

All the material, both aluminium and plastic, is manufactured from a single extruded section, varied in placement and colour to give the appearance of multiple pieces. These pieces are all set parallel to the pier edge to underscore the idea of horizontality and achieve an even longer rectangle than it already is, in this case extruded like a “churro” (wrinkled doughnut), only on its immediate scale: overall, it seems to be the result of an accumulation of different components, stacked neatly on the pier. The memory of a former use. -- ArchDaily

Source: René de Wit archdaily.com

Primary School De Vuurvogel, Eikstraat 11, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011 designed by Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten

The cantilevered gymnasium adjoins the public space and defines the entrance to the complex. It is finished in timber slats and appears to stand on steel box letters spelling out DE VUURVOGEL. -- ArchDaily

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Remodeling of “San Julián” Public School, Calle San Julián, Marmolejo, Jaén, Spain, 2011 designed by Gabriel Verd Arquitectos

The new gym is at the southeast corner of the site, connecting to the main building via a new covered porch. -- ArchDaily

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Green Sports Hall, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, The Netherlands designed by MoederscheimMoonen Architects

The design can be characterized by its playful façade concept; different green coated steel sheets are randomly spread in a two layered structure. This concept of ‘layering’ combines the sports hall and the single layered clubhouse into one unified shape. The façade concept is completed by strategically chosen polycarbonate surfaces on which the different sports are expressed. -- ArchDaily

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The Muskiz Municipal Sports Centre Extension, Muskiz, Biscay, Spain, 2014 designed by G&C Arquitectos

The facade design, made from perforated sheet metal, allows visual permeability from inside and puts sporting activities in the foreground. In addition this solution enables the new fire escape to be camouflaged behind the perforated façade. -- ArchDaily

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Hello House, Melbourne VIC, Australia, 2014 designed by OOF!

Most noticeably, the home features a large, white-brick wall featuring the word ‘HELLO’, that offers a conversation with the neighbouring buildings and its residents. A skin of brick is all it takes to keep a secret and two worlds exist happily side by side with a public face that cheerfully greets the street while giving nothing away about the world behind. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jesús Granada archdaily.com

12 dwellings in Jaen, Calle Llana de San Juan, 41, 23004 Jaén, Jaén, Spain, 2014 designed by bRijUNi Architects

This second building occupies a strange and very unique plot of over six hundred square meters just two hundred meters away from the previous project. The area of the plot is ten times larger so we can develop an ambitious program of twelve houses around a large courtyard with swimming pool over two garage floors.  -- ArchDaily

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333 Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1983 designed by KPF

while the northwestern side mirrors the river with a reflective green-glass skin and graceful curving façade, emerging from its context as a luminous glass volume.  -- architect's web site

Ugh--a new sign atop 333 W. Wacker -- Cityscapes

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Pacific Design Center, Green Building, West Hollywood, California, USA, 1988 designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

The Green Building is an expansion of the Pacific Design Center, which started with the iconic Blue Building. The Pacific Design Center building was originally envisioned as a single, free-​standing structure to house showrooms for the interior design trades. Today, it is a multi-​building complex that includes offices for the design, entertainment and arts industries. The Green Building is unique in shape and color, although materials, scale and detailing correspond to the first building. Both buildings are organized as a series of stacked two-​level atria. The buildings connect at the terrace and first floor levels. -- architect's web site

Source: Paul Warchol archdaily.com

Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000 designed by Steven Holl Architects

The porous architecture of the rectangular pavilion is inscribed with a concept from the music of Morton Feldman’s “Patterns in a Chromatic Field”. The ambition to achieve a space of gossameroptic phenomena with chance-located reflected color is especially effective at night when the color patches paint and reflect in the canal. -- ArchDaily

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Amalia House, Styria, Austria, 2007 designed by GRID Architects

Located on top of a hill in Styria, overlooking the valley of Kirchbach Amalia offers space for up to six people, without having to spare any comfort.

Organised in 2 levels, one of them split, she lets the landscape float in and gives view to her surrounding from everywhere within. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com

Animal Refuge Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007 designed by Arons en Gelauff Architecten

This building is folded like a ribbon along the waterway around the plot. Inside this, two large play spaces for the animals have been created. -- ArchDaily

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Vitus Bering Innovation Park, University College Vitus Bering, Horsens, Denmark, 2009 designed by C. F. Møller Architects

The building’s dynamic and innovative character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the facades, the movement is seen in the glazing strips that stretch towards the sky across the six storeys of the building and create the impression of a spiral sequence, while internally it is expressed via the main staircase in green fibre cement, which runs in a spiral form between the storeys in the unifying internal atrium.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Christian Richters archdaily.com

Mittlerer Ring, Munich, Germany, 2009 designed by Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten

There are five buildings of the same type, along which the façade continues, following the line of the curved street. The gables of the old buildings are revealed at regular intervals between the residential buildings. The entire lengthy front can really only be appreciated while driving past it, since it cannot be perceived in a single view. A characteristic, unmistakeable sculpture is the overall result and has already picked up the nickname “the crocodile”. -- ArchDaily

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Public Toilets, Uster, Switzerland, 2011 designed by Gramazio & Kohler

The public toilet in the city park of Uster has a complex facade of 295 folded aluminumstrips. The depth of the folding and the slightly different colors of each strip generate a shimmering facade that changes depending on sun angle and the observers’ perspective. -- ArchDaily

Source: Aitor Ortiz archdaily.com

IDOM Headquarters, Bilbao, Spain, 2011 designed by ACXT Arquitectos

An imaginary green carpet has been designed as if simply placed over the roof, hiding all air conditioning units which in most office buildings are visible, with the resulting sound and visual impact. 

.... some “brise soleil” whose design emerges as an imaginary extension of the roof carpet as something that has been stretched over the façades and “folds” in its singularities: an existing balcony facing the canal, the entrance, access points for firemen through the façade and other unique areas. -- ArchDaily

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Villiot-Rapée Apartments, Paris, France, 2011 designed by HAMONIC + MASSON

Each level and each flat has a different floor lending itself to different practices and uses. Rather than being like a balcony, a loggia (or a terrace), which can be seen and used on a daily basis, winds its way around the outside of the flats and gives residents the feeling that they live outdoors. This “poured garden” creates close ties to the building’s external environment. The silver-colored gangway ceilings underscore the difference between inside and outside. The loggias in the covered ribbons are clad in aluminium and the balcony areas in stainless steel. Then, a system of aluminium screen walls, colored glass, stainless steel lists and mirror sheets, stacked up on top of each other, story on story, contribute to deconstructing the façades and to mix up inside and outside, giving our two towers a Parisian caravanserai look. -- ArchDaily

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BSA (Boston Society of Architects) Space, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2011 designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture

....is centered around a highly visible “cloud” ceiling and an iconic stair. These two architectural elements act as brand markers for BSA Space and an invitation into the exhibits and meeting spaces above. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com

Primary School & Nursery in the “Claude Bernard” ZAC, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez

The entrance hall is treated as a flow interchange that highlights the oddly shaped stairways that occupy and cross the empty space. The three-storey atrium clarifies the way the building functions as a whole and shows how the different sections have been superimposed. The monumentality of the entrance hall contrasts with the other areas; it emphasizes movement and creates criss-cross perspectives that lend the design a playful narrative force. -- ArchDaily

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Multi-generational: Living at Mühlgrund, Vienna, Austria, 2012 designed by ARTEC Architekten

A cascade stair in the narrow zone between the corridor and the metal wall leads from the main entrance on the west side, through the building, to the top level. In between is a vertical garden with 1000 plants in eleven 7-metre-long, prefabricated-concrete planters, whose tension cables were developed three-dimensionally. -- ArchDaily

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Platoon Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2012 designed by Platoon Cultural Development

Platoon Kunsthalle is built of 33 iso cargo containers. as icons of a flexible architecture in a globalized culture, the stacked containers form a unique construction that can be rebuilt anywhere else any time. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marcel van der Burg archdaily.com

Sports Hall, Rietlanden, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by Slangen + Koenis Architects

To accentuate the placement of the new structure, we created very colourful facades at the two sides that intersect the existing buildings, accentuating the contrast between old and new. The two front facades are very crisp and light with white colours in varying materials. -- ArchDaily

Source: David Frutos archdaily.com

Administration Extension, La Nucia, Alicante, Spain, 2013 designed by CRYSTALZOO

....a modern building that responds to its environment, a building whose architecture reflects the fusion of uses, accentuating the new identity of La Nucía’s population with a progressive character, banking on innovation and fusion of styles in the city. -- ArchDaily

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Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1998 designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects

La Villette could be conceived of as one of the largest buildings ever constructed — a discontinuous building but a single structure nevertheless, overlapping the site’s existing features and articulating new activities. -- architect's web site

Source:Lawrence Anderson archdaily.com

Formosa 1140, West Hollywood, California, USA, 2008 designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

External circulation is used as a buffer between public and private realms and articulated through layers of perforated metal and small openings.

The careful placement of outer skin panels and inner skin fenestration creates a choreographed effect, both revealing and concealing, while achieving a unique expression of form and materials. The exterior skin also keeps west facing units cooler by acting as a screen and shading device. -- ArchDaily

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TKTS Booth, Time Square, New York City, USA, 2008 designed by Perkins Eastman, Choi Ropiha 

the glass stringer beams that support the structure’s glowing red staircase-cum-roof; it’s a place for visitors to sit, relax, and enjoy the street theater of Times Square -- ARCHITECT

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Red Diamond, Beijing, China, 2009 designed by Chiasmus Partners

By wrapping the old factory building with evenly-spaced-out steel tubing, the façade of the performance hall was perceived as a theater stage. The old white door in the middle was kept and untouched, telling the history of the building’s transformation. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jesús Granada archdaily.com

Yound Disabled Moduls And Workshop Pavillions, Camino del Abejar, Zaragoza, Spain, 2011 designed by g.bang architecture

The roof, for the most part, saw tooth shape, with variable slopes – very steep at some points – reflects, from the outside, the degree of internal mental activity in relation to the type of rooms they occupy: the resting or sleeping area with a slope of 60%, common areas or with maximum activity have outstanding peak of 240%. The treatment of the spaces occupied by the medical staff and caregivers has been dealt with flat roofs. -- ArchDaily

Source: Andrés Valbuena archdaily.com

JWT Bogotá Headquarters, Bogotá, Colombia, 2011 designed by AEI Arquitectura e Interiores

The project was thought as a small city which organization starts basically from a clear ordering principle: a center, a plaza, an important gathering landmark created by two traffic lines resembling main city streets, orthogonal and intercepted. -- ArchDaily

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Ropemaker, Ropemaker Place, London, UK, 2011 designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects

Macquarie’s Ropemaker Place was designed as a model for a new transparency in banking services revolving around an open atrium and connecting staircase. -- ArchDaily

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Red Stair Amphitheatre, Melbourne, Australia designed by by Marcus O'Reilly Architects 

This red stair works as a beacon, an easy to find meeting place. It is an outdoor amphitheatre for buskers & small meetings or demonstrations, and for sitting in the sun.  -- architect's web site

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Source: Arkispazio archdaily.com

Museum MUMAC, Milan, Italy, 2012 designed by Arkispazio

The facades of the museum are covered with strips of metal “red Cimbali”, sinuous and enveloping to resemble the waves of hot coffee, which at night filters the artificial light creating a striking illuminated reticle that evokes the energy of MuMAC. -- ArchDaily

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Red Building, West Hollywood, California,USA designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Located on a 14-acre site, the buildings are organized around an outdoor plaza. The Red Building is the most dynamic of the composition which already includes the six-story Blue Building that houses showrooms and office space, and the nine-story Green Building which contains a film theater and conference center. The new addition alters the site, creating a more defined public outdoor space. While the glass of the earlier buildings was opaque, the façade of the Red Building includes both transparent and fritted glass. To create a taut, all-glass appearance, the red glass is held in its aluminum frames with silicone. -- ArchDaily

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Source: Nils Petter Dale archdaily.com

Red House, Oslo, Norway designed by JVA

The use of color reflects the temperament of the client. -- ArchDaily

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242 Social Housing Units, Salburúa, Vitoria – Gasteiz, Spain designed by ACXT

The building we are showing occupies the central position of these five towers and it signifies “a milestone within the milestone” which, with its red colour, intends to express optimism, confidence and commitment with the future in a mainly grey social and architectonic frame. -- ArchDaily

Source: José María Díez Laplaza archdaily.com

Pago de Carraovejas Winery, Peñafiel, Spain designed by Estudio Amas4arquitectura

A homogeneous finishing, concrete coloured in red-wine, unifies different uses and gives some warmth both inside and outside. A Bayer pigment was added to a prescribed concrete mix at a rate of 2%, a percentage given by the manufacturer after some research. Mixing water was purified by osmosis in order to avoid efflorescences. Another important detail was using concrete dobies coloured in the same tone so no marks were left after removing formworks. -- ArchDaily

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House of the Arts, Miranda do Corvo, Portugal, 2013 designed by Future Architecture Thinking

The building features a contemporary and volumetrically expressive language. The sloping roofs establish a dialogue with the geometry of the mountain landscape, in an analogy to the village rooftops. The dynamism achieved through the continuity between façades and roof is accented by a strong red colour, emphasizing its design and highlighting the building through the surrounding landscaped area vegetation. -- ArchDaily

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Austin, Surry Hills NSW, Australia, 2013 designed by Smart Design Studio

In rust red, to compliment the Hot Chile render, which is similar to the original colour of the building, and provide it with a distinct identity that compliments the bohemian character of Surry Hills. -- ArchDaily

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Constell.ation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013 designed by LIKEarchitects

Portuguese studio LIKEarchitects designed an ephemeral lighting installation for the gardens of the Presidential Portuguese Republic Residence. Materialized by a network of contiguous arches in red corrugated tube, illuminated by a LED lighting system, Conste.llation delicately dances on the gardens, connecting spaces and crafting unexpected routes. The arch – a primordial element in architecture – has the inherent power to create space (under, inside, etc.), and, at the same time, to build a physical relation between two places (between, inside, etc.) being related also to the idea of connection and unification. -- ArchDaily

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Redline, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, 2014 designed by Pietri Architectes

The Redline – 59 apartments ranging from studios to 5-rooms – is a part of this urban revival. Facing towards Toulon and the Bay of Vignettes, one of the largest in Europe, the Redline is set slightly back from the future Autumn Garden located on the site of the former shipyards. It comprises three separate parts with its base, a forged and sculpted mass of concrete, onto which two wings have been erected. -- ArchDaily

Innovation Centers

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IBC Innovation Factory, Kolding, Denmark, 2009 designed by SHL Architects

The IBC Innovation Factory is the result of a refurbishment project of the paint manufacturer GORI’s factory from 1978, which set new standards for factories at the time. In the spirit of the original factory, schmidt hammer lassen architects, in collaboration with International Business College (IBC) Kolding, has created the settings for a ground-breaking and creative learning environment, aiming to become the world’s best. The ambition is to be a training camp for future innovators. -- ArchDaily

Cambridge Innovation Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Neighboring the MIT campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, CIC is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. CIC offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business and technical services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. CIC is cost efficient and scales with the company's growth. Currently, over 450 companies are located at CIC. -- official web site

The Idea Factory -- Boston Globe Magazine

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Harvard Business School, Harvard Innovation Lab/Batten Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2011 designed by Shepley Bulfinch

The Harvard Innovation Lab is a new model for collaboration and entrepreneurship that crosses all disciplines and a magnet with a campus-wide draw. Its design creates a catalyst for a robust culture of exploration and a program rich with team-based activities. The transformation of a former television studio into the Innovation Lab was completed on a highly expedited schedule, with just seven months from a dynamic workshop-based design process to the end of construction, opening at the start of the 2011-12 academic year. -- architect's web site

Source: Theo Peekstok archdaily.com

RDM Innovation Dock, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011 designed by Groosman Partners I Architecten

The hall is situated on the terrain of RDM (Rotterdam Dry-dock Company), a former shipyard recently rebuilt into a campus for education and innovation. The Innovation Dock is in use by schools and small-scale and innovative companies operating in the mar-kets “building, moving & powering”. -- ArchDaily

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San Diego Gas & Electric Energy Innovation Center, San Diego, California, USA, 2011 designed by Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells

The Energy Innovation Center is a working showcase that demonstrates smart energy initiatives and green building practices, all housed in one unique setting. This 27,000 square foot LEED Platinum center offers visitors a venue for learning and exploring the latest in energy efficiency, renewable energy, smart grid and alternative fuel technologies. -- ArchDaily

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Chayi Industrial Innovation Center, Chiayi City, Taiwan, 2011 designed by Bio-architecture formosana

The site is located in sub-tropical climate zone characterized by its hot and humid weather. According to this, the strategy of this project emphasizes the utilization of the natural resources in this climate condition. The adopted methods include solar energy, rainwater reuse, and an outdoor temperature cooling mechanism via the setting of the micro-climate. -- ArchDaily

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Knox Innovation Opportunity and Sustainability Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2012 designed by Woods Bagot

The design of the building reflects its purpose of operation – sustainability, inclusion and innovation.  It includes sustainable materials, energy efficiency through correct building orientation and integration of siting and building fabric with engineering services. 

The building’s distinctive façade is part of the sustainability imperative of the design, acting as a screen for the sun. The large eve acts as a canopy, while the blades serve as a screen, positioned for thermal quality in response to the angle of the sun. -- ArchDaily

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NOVA ISKRA Design Incubator, Belgrade, Serbia, 2012 designed by Studio Petokraka

The first design incubator in the region of SEE is now open. NOVA ISKRA, co-working space dedicated to the professionalization of designers in Serbia and the region, as well as to establishing connections between the sectors of creative industries and manufacturing, opened its doors in Belgrade this December. The multi-functional workspace is being established with the idea to support young creatives form the fields of design, architecture, interior design, visual communications and other related fields. -- ArchDaily

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Boston Innovation Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2013 designed by Hacin + Associates Inc.

....a $5.5 million innovation center in the Seaport District, part of a broader effort to transform the area into a hotbed of entrepreneurship. The facility will provide space for promising companies and executives to meet and exchange ideas, and to host business and social events. It will be operated by the Cambridge Innovation Center, an organization that supports start-up companies in Kendall Square. -- Boston Globe

Source: Youngchae Park archdaily.com

SCL – Seoul Creative Lab, Nokbeon-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 2013 designed by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

The design of SCL is mainly focused on the creation of the “space of inspiration”. In order to create such space, the existing low ceiling was replaced by the high ceiling which was finished with the sound-absorbing sponges that would control the temperature of the exposed roof according to the season. By doing so, the inside space is completely soundproofed which fulfills the audible environment of SCL due to various ongoing debates. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jihye Choi archdaily.com

HUB, Nokbeon-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 2013 designed by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

HUB of Seoul is a place for the people who want to start their own business. City of Seoul supplies the space, human network, education and some financial consulting for them. Many young adults gather to this place for their future vision. The facility is free thanks to the municipal financial support. -- ArchDaily

Source: Lara Swimmer archdaily.com

Bezos Center for Innovation, 860 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2013 designed by Olson Kundig Architects

....the Bezos Center for Innovation is a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the theme of innovation, featuring multimedia, interactive and hands- on experiences as well as artifacts, images and oral histories that explore Seattle’s creative history and ignite the innovator within. -- ArchDaily

Source: Masao Nishikawa archdaily.com

Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab, 178 Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, 2014 designed by Naruse Inokuma Architects

It is a place like a platform where companies and individuals work together beyond a traditional framework and fuse ideas, skills and know-how to produce innovative products and services, which is facilitated and realized by the system with investors’ supports. -- ArchDaily

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CIM – Mouraria Creative Hub, Rua dos Lagares 24, 1100-300 Lisboa, Portugal, 2014 designed by DNSJ.arq

The CIM (Mouraria Creative Hub) is a hub for creative activities hosted in an ancient building complex situated in Mouraria, a historical quarter of Lisbon. -- ArchDaily

Source: Oliver Tamagnini archdaily.com

KreativLABs, Gewerbegebiet Nördlicher Ortsrand I, Boschstraße 7, 63843 Niedernberg, Germany, 2014 designed by schöne räume architektur innenarchitektur

It is without saying that bright and spacious rooms, application of specific materials, in short, a modern working environment promotes creativity. How floors can be transformed into rooms of creativity, demonstrates the re-construction of a former logistics centre in Niedernberg. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ilan Nahum archdaily.com

Gartner Innovation Center, Moshe Sneh St 13, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, 2015 designed by Studio BA

The new Gartner innovation center in Tel Aviv is a great example for an office design, aimed for a young startup company that has been purchased by traditional big corporate. -- ArchDaily