Tag: passive cooling

You can make frosted glass using yoghurt. You can beat the heat, gain some privacy and save money. When you stop loving the design, wash and create something new.

Foster + Partners Safra brain center uses passive energy technology for cooling, but not PV panels as originally advertised. 

We were quite taken with these long-standing caves in Iran, and with this eco-boutique hotel in Turkey, but neither match the style of the restored Yunak Evleri hotel in Cappadocia. With fixings such as marble in the reception area, it isn’t the most modest tourism facility we have featured, but we do love to see history, nature, and travel merge in creative harmony.

Thousands of folding glass panels cover the southern facade of the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi (above). Reacting...

In the unrelenting Middle East sun, one thing is very clear when you build a new home: it must...

Beit Safafa is on the precipice of rapid urbanization. If that is the case and it has to be, we at least hope that other homes in the region will look to Abdelqader's sustainable leadership for inspiration.

Contemporary architects in the Middle East revert to ancient techniques to cool and light new buildings. The earliest known Mashrabiya...

After four years, the O-14 is finally complete, and is as righteous as it is "holey." Dubai has been...

Based on two Middle Eastern concepts, of the clay jara and the mashrabiya, the ecooler is one of the friendliest examples of cooling I've ever seen, and so much more beautiful than the big lump of whirring metal we call the "air-conditioner."