The Next Green
Innovation in Sustainable Design
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White is Green: White Arkitekter’s Innovative Sustainable Stockholm Office
Sweden – The next stop on the Stockholm leg of our research trip was White Arkitekter’s Stockholm office dubbed “Katsan”, which accommodates 400 employees in an exceptionally low energy building. The building sits along a canal connected to Hammarby Sjö, a small lake in what was once an industrial area and is now considered to be a semi-urban…
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“Plus Energy” New Standard for City of Stockholm Royal Seaport Development
Sweden – As part of our visit to the Royal Seaport development in Stockholm we had an opportunity to get a tour of a Plus Energy residential building under construction (the most interesting phase of a project for us architects). Part of the fourth phase of the seaport’s development, the Bröfastet stage features the area’s…
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Underground Economy: How Smarter Waste Management Can Create Space
Sweden – In conjunction with our visit to Stockholm’s Royal Seaport development, we had an opportunity to learn more about how the district manages its waste collection. As the Royal Seaport aspires to be a global model for sustainable building, its methods of waste management play an important role. The area is serviced by an…
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Royal Seaport Development, Stockholm
Sweden – To set the stage for the type of sustainable new developments being built in Sweden we kicked off our field research with a tour of Stockholm’s Royal Seaport Development. With the construction of 12,000 new homes and 35,000 new workplaces spread out over 236 hectares it is considered Sweden’s largest urban development. Started…
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We’re off to Sweden & Norway!
We are excited to be embarking on the second leg of our Prix de Rome research trip in Sweden and Norway. We will be posting about the innovative projects and developments that we visit in Stockholm and Oslo, interviews with leading Swedish and Norwegian architects, and meetings with research organizations. We look forward to sharing…
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Green Solution House
Denmark – the Green Solution House designed by 3XN is a conference center and hotel on Bornholm Island, a popular vacation destination in the Baltic Sea. The hotel allows residents to experience a world without waste, through the use of building materials that are fully recyclable or biodegradable. It features 75 unique green solutions, ranging…
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Recent Lectures on The Next Green
During our research trip to Denmark this past summer we gained a tremendous amount of knowledge about sustainable approaches to architecture that were both inspiring and innovative. One of our goals with The Next Green project has always been to disseminate this information to Canadian audiences so that they can learn of the advances being…
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State of Green
Denmark – With Denmark on track to become the world’s first fossil fuel free country by 2050, we visited the State of Green’s headquarters to learn more about how the Scandinavian country is achieving this. The State of Green is a public-private partnership aimed at “showcasing Denmark’s green solutions internationally and attract investments to Denmark.”…