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A Passivhaus cabin in New York proves that energy efficient buildings can harbour amazingly uplifting spaces inside... The power of good design!

"Last One Standing" by Oscar Marzaroli, 1968, Glasgow

In 2007 Eliasson and his studio won an invited architectural competition with a proposal to transform the rooftop of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, in Denmark, which was built by schmidt hammer lassen architects. Installed in 2011, Your rainbow panorama offers visitors sweeping views of the city, the sky, and the distant horizon. The elevated 360-degree walkway Your rainbow panorama is 150 metres around and glazed with rainbow-coloured glass. Visible from afar, the work divides Aarhus into various colour zones and acts as a beacon for people moving about the city – an effect that is heightened at night when lights running the circumference of the walkway illuminate it from within.

"A cat asleep has intense action"

46 standard and 100 non-standard brick specials were used for the project.

Landscape and building as one indivisible unit.

Photo credit: Trevor Patt

https://www.carusostjohn.com/projects/bremer-landesbank/

This Passivhaus building was the first 4-storey timber building in Vorarlberg. The structure is massive wood and comes from local forests. The building is considered a paradigm on the subjects of ecology, sustainability and value creation.

Winner of World Architecture Festival Retrofit Award

“The accessible spiral ramp bath was built into the concrete foundations of the building by excavating a square hole in the plan. This was then waterproofed and a spiral shape built up using blockwork inside. Styrofoam was added for insulation, as well as another layer of waterproofing before the entire form was skimmed in 30mm of concrete, finished with a rough surface on the ramp and smooth on the bath’s bottom. Finally the surface was impregnated with an invisible sealant to make it watertight.”