Recent researches reveal that sitting all day long can be just as bad for your health as smoking, significantly increasing the risk of diabetes and heart disease. 

"Outstanding Landscape of Affordances" is a project that explores how contemporary offices can encourage a more active and healthy lifestyle, offering a landscape of possibilities for alternative working positions.

Álvaro Siza Vieira announced yesterday the decision on his archive, which will be donated by the architect himself, to Fundação Gulbenkian, Fundação de Serralves and Canadian Centre for Architecture, in Montreal, Canada.

The architect explains that during the last years he sensed the need to organize the archive of his many years of activity dedicated to architecture, looking for "a solution he considered substantiated", and he found that "there was a clear interest on the part of individuals and institutions." 

Innovation and experimentation mark the International Garden Festival, the leading venue for the exhibition of contemporary landscaping and gardens held annually since 2000 in Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada.

Aligned on a sunny esplanade or huddled in green rooms, the installations evoke the playful, the poetic and the delicacy and complexity of life, transporting visitors to new universes on an exceptional environment on the edge of St. Lawrence River.

With nearly 100 years of experience designing professional solutions for Europe’s best chefs, Electrolux presents the Secret Ingredient – a platform created to expand consumer’s culinary capabilities within domestic kitchens, through monthly tips and technical advice, gathered by Electrolux together with chefs and consumers, which soon will be available on the brand's website. 

Modern construction cannot do without comfort, therefore energy efficiency in thermal performance of buildings is increasingly important. Maintaining thermal stability within a home does not necessarily involves excessive energy consumption.

The TÉRMICOproETICS block was designed considering masonry walls with external thermal insulation, ensuring great energy performance.