Background: Sustainable building requires global ­cooperation

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02/2017 DETAIL green
Cultural centre in Sinthian (SN), Toshiko Mori Architect 2015. For the New-York-based Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Toshiko Mori designed this multi-functional building in a small village in north-eastern Senegal. The centre comprises artists’ residences, ateliers, performance spaces and a covered marketplace. To be able to employ as many local labourers as possible, the architect (who worked pro bono) combined concrete pillars with traditional local materials such as brick, bamboo roof trusses and thatch roofing. and thatch roofing.
© Iwan Baan
The more vaguely and broadly the term ‘sustainability’ is interpreted, the more popular it seems to become. Today, it is applied to anything that is vaguely environmentally conscious. In contrast, the actual core meaning of sustainability, namely the application of a global and cross-generational perspective to issues of justice, is threatening to be lost. In both architecture and urban planning,...
Cultural centre in Sinthian (SN), Toshiko Mori Architect 2015. For the New-York-based Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Toshiko Mori designed this multi-functional building in a small village in north-eastern Senegal. The centre comprises artists’ residences, ateliers, performance spaces and a covered marketplace. To be able to employ as many local labourers as possible, the architect (who worked pro bono) combined concrete pillars with traditional local materials such as brick, bamboo roof trusses and thatch roofing. and thatch roofing.
© Iwan Baan