Smart Buildings
Buildings designed with adaptive systems, sustainable technologies, and responsive environments that serve evolving community needs.
Pich-Aguilera Lifts a LEED Platinum Office Campus Above Former Marshlands in Viladecans
Four elevated volumes float on pilotis above the Llobregat delta, turning the ground plane into ecological infrastructure for a 11,326 m² business center.
DAAL Carves Open a Hillside Corner in Seoul with the Y2 Mixed Use Building
A compact brick building in Yeonhui-dong uses arched windows, a central tree, and a courtyard to crack open a closed residential slope.
Topos Atelier Builds a Vineyard Gateway That Replaces Fences with Architecture in Northern Portugal
At Solar das Bouças in Amares, a 252 square meter entrance complex sets the formal vocabulary for an entire viticultural estate.
skimA Slots a Vertical Metal Tower into a Yeonnam-dong Brick House to Make It Mixed Use
A 292-square-meter renovation in Seoul's cafe-lined Yeonnam-dong grafts a new circulation spine onto a low-rise residential shell.
Team MIMO Builds a Glue-Free Timber Housing Prototype for the Solar Decathlon in Wuppertal
A compact two-storey research building made of solid wood modules tests how minimal material impact can yield maximum communal output.
NAC Arquitectos Wraps Twin Valencia Towers in Spiraling Ribbon Balconies
Saler Homes places 27-story residential volumes at the city's southern edge, framing views from farmland to the Mediterranean Sea.
Michel Rémon, Associés, and ARCHIMATH Reinvent the Courtyard Hospital in Morocco's Desert
A 58,000 m² medical campus near Marrakech channels the ancient Bîmâristân through fiber-concrete moucharabieh and sun-driven planning.
Greenhill's STEM Center Turns Classrooms Inside Out
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs a courtyard-driven STEM building in north Dallas that treats landscape as pedagogy and brick as climate armor.
The Power Shift: An Interdisciplinary Knowledge Sharing Hub for Sustainable Architecture
An interdisciplinary knowledge hub redefining sustainable architecture through technology, collaboration, and shared intelligence.
43 Passivhaus Housing by AMMA: Sustainable Residential Design in Mons-en-Barœul
43 Passivhaus Housing in France combines sustainable design, passive solar strategies, compact architecture, generous outdoor spaces, natural light, and thermal comfort.
Positive Energy House: A Net-Positive Residential Renovation in Shenzhen
Net-positive renovated home in Shenzhen uses layered insulation, passive ventilation, and solar roofs to generate surplus energy sustainably.
Maverick: A Regenerative Workspace That Generates Its Own Energy and Microclimate
Bladeless wind turbines, solar roofscapes, and a central biosphere core transform the office building into a self-sufficient organism.
