Underground building

Underground homes can cut down on heating and cooling costs significantly. Check out what underground homes look like across the globe.

Quem não gostaria de trabalhar num lugar assim? Escritórios ao redor do mundo apostaram em um design totalmente inovador para estimular a criatividade e produtividade dos funcionários

CEBRA architecture has been selected to construct the unobtrusive skamlingsbanken visitor center in jutland, southern denmark.

Image 41 of 65 from gallery of An Underground House in Ukraine and an Extension for the Glasgow School of Art: 12 Unbuilt Projects Submitted by our Readers. Underground House Plan B . Image Courtesy of Sergey Makhno Architecs

Underground homes have been around for millennia. What can we learn from this ancient architecture? Should we integrate these practices into modern design?

Architect Rasem Kamal has proposed a network of burrow-like spaces that would sprawl out beneath a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordan desert

Através de uma escavação ao redor de uma grande caixa d'água, a equipe revelou um mundo repleto de arcos e tijolos – em uma atmosfera "atemporal"

designboom speaks with DECA architecture to learn more about its many works that are sensitively carved into the coastline of greece.

Completed in 2008 in Antiparos, Greece. Images by Erieta Attali. The design of the house is a dual response to the particular topography of the site and to the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped...

Since I am designing a subterranean library in my design work, I felt it necessary to look at precedent studies of other libraries and similar buildings (archives/storage) that also sit underground. Subterranean library depositories are quite common, the book lists Harvard University Library (below), Minneapolis Public Library, Cornell University Library (New York, below), Michigan University Library (the book is American) and so on. The main book depository for Cambridge University…