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The 15 Winners of the Building of the Year Awards
Jadue-Livingstone Will Design the Parque Observatorio on Cerro Calán in Santiago
Final Call: Submit Your Design for the A' Design Awards 2021
Color Beyond Aesthetics: The Psychology of Green in Interior Spaces
When It Comes to Climate Crisis, Traditional Practice Is Broken
Martinez House / BHY arquitectos
PARIS XI Office / LAN Architecture
Sindhorn Kempinski Hotel / Plan Architect
Noble House / APOLLO Architects & Associates + Satoshi Kurosaki
House in Mukainada / Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
Patema Inverted / L'EAU design
RO Villa / Bgnr Architects + Kantor Gunawan Guanawan
naïve Bookstore / designRESERVE
Saanich Farmhouse / Scott and Scott Architects
House R / Gianserra + Lima arquitectos
Lykta Fireplace / Workshop NTNU + Sami Rintala + Pasi Aalto
Corso Pod Lipami Apartments / EHL & KOUMAR ARCHITEKTI
House NVO / dmvA

The 15 Winners of the Building of the Year Awards

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 01:55 AM PST

With nearly 200,000 votes cast during the last 21 days, we are happy to present the winners of the 2021 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. This peer-based, crowdsourced architecture award showcases projects chosen by ArchDaily readers who filtered thousands of projects down to the 15 best works featured on ArchDaily in 2020.

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Jadue-Livingstone Will Design the Parque Observatorio on Cerro Calán in Santiago

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST

Acceso al parque . Image Cortesía de Parque Observatorio Cerro Calán

The panel of judges overseeing the design contest for Parque Observatorio Cerro Calán in Santiago (Chile) publicized their final decision on January 28, naming Chilean firm Jadue-Livingstone as the winner out of the five finalists.

Organized by the Las Condes Municipality in collaboration with the University of Chile and the Cerros Isla Foundation, the contest aimed to find the best architectural and landscape design for an upcoming park in Santiago, Chile: the Parque Observatorio Cerro Calán, a 45 hectare space to be built around the already existing Observatorio Astronómico Nacional.

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Final Call: Submit Your Design for the A' Design Awards 2021

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:30 PM PST

Perception Cafe / Haejun Jung - Feelament. Image Courtesy of A' Design Awards

If you've been debating whether to submit your work to the 2021 A' Design Award Competition, now is the time! This is your last chance to enter your design, because the final call for entries ends February 28th, 2021. The international A' Design Awards give designers an opportunity to showcase their work to a global audience, whether you're a designer, architect, or an innovator from any other design field. Among other design competitions and awards, the A' Design Award stands out for its exceptional scale with over 100 design categories.

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Color Beyond Aesthetics: The Psychology of Green in Interior Spaces

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:00 PM PST

Bar Botanique Cafe Tropique / Studio Modijefsky. Image © Maarten Willemstein

How many changes have you done to your interior space during this past year? Whether it was a change of furniture layout, repainting the walls, adding more light fixtures or perhaps even removing them, after spending so much time in one place, the space you were once used to didn't make sense anymore. We could blame the overall situation for how we've been feeling lately, but as a matter of fact, the interior environment plays a huge role in how we feel or behave as well. However, if you were wondering why some neighbors seem much more undisturbed and serene even in the midst of a pandemic, it could be because the interior is greener on the other side.

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When It Comes to Climate Crisis, Traditional Practice Is Broken

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 07:30 PM PST

The Environmental Nature Center and Preschool, in Newport Beach, California, won a national AIA COTE Top 10 award in 2020. Image © Costea Photography, courtesy of LPA

This article was originally published on Common Edge as "When It Comes to Climate Change, Traditional Practice Is Broken."

Sustainable design in the United States is for many a sort of Rorschach test. The construction industry is either making steady progress toward the ultimate goal of a carbon-free building sector, or it's moving entirely too slowly, missing key targets as the ecological clock keeps ticking. The perplexing truth to all of this is: both are ostensibly true. In recent decades the industry has become significantly more energy efficient. We've added building stock but flattened the energy curve. The cost of renewables continues to drop. But way more is required, much more quickly. At the same time, huge hurdles remain. Without a renewable grid and stringent energy codes, it's hard to see how we can fully decarbonize the building sector in even 20 years, let alone at the timeline suggested by increasingly worried climate scientists. It's the classic good news/bad news scenario (or vice-versa, depending on your mood).

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Martinez House / BHY arquitectos

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 07:00 PM PST

architects: BHY arquitectos
Location: Martínez, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas

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PARIS XI Office / LAN Architecture

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:00 PM PST

architects: LAN Architecture
Location: 47 Rue Popincourt, 75011 Paris, France
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Cyrille Weiner
Photographs: Yannick Labrousse
Area: 700.0 m2

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Sindhorn Kempinski Hotel / Plan Architect

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 05:00 PM PST

architects: Plan Architect
Location: 64 Sathon Soi 10, Khwaeng Silom, Khet Bang Rak, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10500, Thailand
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Ketsiree Wongwan
Area: 70000.0 m2

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Noble House / APOLLO Architects & Associates + Satoshi Kurosaki

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 04:00 PM PST