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Five years after GWWO Architects realized a nature education center at Berks Nature in Reading, Pennsylvania, the firm has completed an addition that provides more classrooms and doubles the size of the existing building. The architects answered a few questions about the project that opened... GWWO Architects

Two new lecture halls on a medical campus outside Stockholm are covered in concrete panels that glow from the inside, thanks to a technique developed by Sweden's Butong. John Hill

P6PA+Architects' design of the Bieblova Apartments in Prague features a facade "written" with white HI-MACS® panels incised with letters that glow at night.  John Hill

As part of its renovation of the bathing hall at Obermain Therme in Bad Staffelstein, Germany, Krieger Architekten Ingenieure designed a cave-like space whose form was inspired by salt crystals. Two layers of LUCEM light-emitting concrete panels give the enclosure its colorful glow. John Hill

Nature centers are a fairly specific building type that allow architects to enrich people's experiences of architecture, the natural environment, and their interaction. Nature centers also call for sustainable architecture of the utmost, due to their purpose and proximity to...