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Category: Sustainable

Novartis Building by Gehry Partners, LLP in Basel, Switzerland
Photo © Thomas Mayer

December 02, 2009 /

Novartis Building
Gehry Partners, LLP
Basel, Switzerland

The Novartis Building by Gehry Partners is part of the Masterplan for Novartis, designed by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani, that will transform the St. Johann site, its headquarters in Basel, from an industrial complex to a campus of innovation, knowledge and encounter.

June 08, 2009 /

Iberê Camargo Museum (ICM)
Álvaro Siza
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Settled into the lush green hillside like a giant sculpture, the first building in Brazil by Álvaro Siza preserves the collection of more than 4000 works by Iberê Camargo, the master of Brazilian expressionism.

Penang Global City Center in Penang, Malaysia, by Asymptote Architecture
Exterior landscape
Photo courtesy Asymptote Architecture

January 28, 2008 /

Penang Global City Center
Asymptote Architecture
Penang, Malaysia

Sited on Penang Hill, the Penang Global City Center (PGCC), a key component of the 256 acre development site that was formally the Penang Turf Club, is an expansive, sustainable, mixed-use development with two iconic sixty-story towers.