Sustainable architecture refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs; it’s a way of building that considers the full life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use ...

The built environment is responsible for approximately 42% of annual global CO2 emissions. During a building's lifespan, half of these emissions come from its construction and demolition. To ...

The Salone del Mobile highlighted seven sustainable architecture projects, with Düsseldorf’s Kö Bogen II standing out for its integration of Europe’s largest green façade into an urban plan ...

When talking about building a better future, concrete is often maligned as an out-of-date material that is bad for the environment. But is it as simple as that? We recast the debate. It takes real ...

Gold Medal 2020 XIV Edition Italian Prize Sustainable Architecture / HOME*: Humanitarian and (un) Ordinary Machine for Emergency. Image Courtesy of International Prize for Sustainable Architecture ...

Being a field dependent on big developer clients and even bigger sums of money, rarely do architects get to pick the projects they work on. Would they if they could? Absolutely. Fast Company asked ...

Architects across New York have embraced Passive House design, a German energy efficiency standard slowly gaining traction in the states. Despite its name, this new approach to building design can be ...

For the past 30 years, critical architectural practice and architectural education at academic institutions in the United States have explored the generative capacity of an ever-expanding set of ...

In our modern world, the traditional economic model has long been "linear": We take raw materials from the earth, make products and eventually dispose of them as waste. This take-make-waste cycle is ...