2022-02-05 21:38
Not sure what to make of this. Shame on all who allowed this to happen. The Make It Right Project in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward was a vision of hope in a time of darkness after Hurricane K… Read More
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Pushing the green limits of sustainable design, buildings and communities.
2020-12-20 19:06
The 70% of school buildings were built before 1975 in Italy. The ageing of the structures and the inadequacy in terms of seismic safety and energy performance represent an emergency to be m… Read More
2020-12-01 00:16
From rising sea levels to so-called heat islands, the challenges facing the world’s major cities as a result of climate change are daunting to say the least. But some municipal respon… Read More
2020-11-29 21:07
2020-11-27 20:54
Redevelopment plans for the station include making space along the Potomac River accessible to the public. (Hilco Redevelopment Partners)
By Lola Fadulu
A development company with a history… Read More
2020-11-18 23:49
Could buildings imitate living organisms? Negin Imani has created a tool translating natural thermoregulation strategies into architectural solutions.
Building on the theory of biomimicry… Read More
2014-10-05 19:42
Among the projects sponsored during the Summer 2014 Charrette, two design teams turned their attention to transforming an historic building in Kansas City's urban core into a new maker space… Read More
2013-11-24 18:24
Greenbuild 2013 Master Speaker: Ed Mazria from U.S. Green Building Council on Vimeo Read More
2013-11-10 21:19
By Matt Hickman
Photo: DMagnus/Flickr
A tornado-resilient Russian nesting doll of a home, a sleek — and rising sea level-safe — spin on the iconic shotgun shack… Read More
2013-11-10 18:37
By Jimmy Stamp
Firefly (Photinus pyralis) (image: wikimedia commons)
When I was a kid I had a “bug box” – a small, homemade container built from wire mesh and a couple pie… Read More
2013-11-10 18:29
By Ann Thorpe
It’s not that uncommon to see architects designing furniture and product designers involved with small buildings like street carts or garden sheds. In sustainable design… Read More
2013-11-09 22:08
The Looper repurposes an existing river barge into a greenhouse which collects, uses, filters, and returns water to the river in a remediated state – a loop. The “building&rdquo&helli…Read More
2013-11-09 18:02
By Michael Welton
"The cloud” gives a lighter-than-air spin to all our connectivity and data sifting. In reality, they consume energy like there’s no tomorrow. Next-generation da… Read More
2013-11-03 19:04
By Mike Scott
The power of footfall. An English company harnessed energy from spectators arriving at the Olympic park during London 2012. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA
Endless amounts have… Read More
2013-11-02 18:00
By Patrick Mikusky and Ben Regnier
Image © San Diego History Center
Despite the sprawling nature of San Diego, our team chose to concentrate on the downtown core, not only because it… Read More
2013-10-07 23:39
2013-10-05 16:46
By Martin C. Pedersen
The green building movement doesn’t have one founder—it has several. One of them, without question, is Bob Berkebile, a founding principal at BNIM in Kansas… Read More
2013-09-29 20:17
Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxi… Read More
2013-09-24 04:09
To the side of an amphitheater under construction on the new $44 million satellite campus of Chatham University, an air vent pokes through the ground. Easily overlooked unless… Read More
2013-09-08 16:21
By Michelle Kuo
RISING SEAS AND BURSTING BUBBLES: Today, events both wildly unpredictable and apparently inexorable confront us at every turn. We live in a world defined by risk—enviro… Read More
2013-09-05 03:15
By Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros
We have previously described four key characteristics of resilient structures in natural systems: diversity; web-network structure; distribu… Read More
2013-09-05 03:01
By Edwin Heathcote
Assemble’s Folly for a Flyover (2011) © Lewis Jones
Architecture is the most contingent of the arts. A painter o… Read More
2013-09-01 17:05
The television footage of the devastation of Joplin, Missouri — struck by an EF5 multiple-vortex tornado in May 2011 — reminded him of old black and white photos of World War I… Read More
2013-08-30 20:33
Teaser for an upcoming feature on the Living Building Challenge by Filmthropic:
The Challenge: The Future (teaser3) from FILMTHROPIC on Vimeo Read More
2013-08-24 15:24
The UK’s Behavioural Design Lab is a new collaboration between Warwick Business School and the Design Council, uniting behavioural science with design-th… Read More
2013-08-18 20:38
The new Green Dot Animo Leadership public school for 525 students is located in a tough South Los Angeles neighborhood almost directly under the flight path into LAX and adjacent to the ver… Read More
2013-08-18 02:50
The EcoDistricts Incubator is a three-day executive level training program for leaders looking to launch EcoDistrict projects in their communities. Learn more: http://ecodistricts.org/incuba… Read More
2013-08-17 18:21
CREDIT: Mecanoo Architects / TU Delft
By Esther Yi
Nobody likes living near wind turbines. They’re loud and obtrusive, and their slicing blades create a strobe-light shadow effec… Read More
2013-08-10 22:33
CREDIT: Andrea Johnson PhotographyBy Jeff Olden, Energy Analyst, Glumac
Over 40 years ago, the Sokol Blosser winery began its journey to becoming a world-class vineyard and an industry leade… Read More
2013-08-10 19:05
CREDITS: San Francisco Planning DepartmentBy Laura Tam
Over the last year, there’s been palpable buzz in San Francisco around eco-districts — essentially, sustainability plans th… Read More
2013-08-10 18:11
By Kriston Capps
The Tar Heel State took one step closer to becoming the first state to buck the nation’s most visible building performance ratings system.
By a broad margin, the North… Read More
2013-08-02 18:02
2013-06-16 20:47
2013-06-15 18:08
By Joss Tantram
Rejuvenative technologies are behaviours and technologies that support, borrow from, utilise, work alongside or benefit from the Earth’s natural productive capacity. Th… Read More
2013-06-01 22:42
By Molly Miller
What is the human toll for our purchases? Do the organizations we support care about their employees? Do they support the local community? How is their money invested?
These… Read More
2013-06-01 20:57
CAPACITY, the Gensler Los Angeles led academic studio at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, was created with the intent to survey, understand and visualize the dynamic set of infrastructure constrai… Read More
2013-05-20 21:13
2013-05-05 17:01
The first One Planet Living residents in the U.S. have moved in to the Grow Community near Seattle, endorsed as a One Planet Community by BioRegional only last year. A young couple and their… Read More
2013-04-30 21:36
Engineers and architects are rethinking the current design of architectural and environmental infrastructure, in favor of regenerative systems that are capable of harnessing wasted energy a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
green building & design's custom publication created in partnership with USGBC Louisiana for 2014 Greenbuild: "New Orleans: Structure, Community, City" Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
IMAGE: Nautilus By Diane Ackerman It is winter in upstate New York, on a morning so cold the ground squeaks loudly underfoot as sharp-finned ice crystals rub together. The trees look like gl… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Great piece in Architect Magazine. By Nate Berg The human response to architecture is usually based on subjective emotions: I like that building, I hate this space; this room is so open, thi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hotel San Jose from Lake | Flato Architects on Vimeo. The metamorphosis of the Hotel San José from a 1930s motor hotel into a hip and modern hotel pays tribute to the creative Austin… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Marvelous calendar produced by GXN Architects showcasing their range of materials used in design Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Greenbuild 2013 Master Speaker: Ed Mazria from U.S. Green Building Council on Vimeo Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Kansas City, Missouri, is the home of Make It Right's latest community revitalization project. Though the neighborhood of Manheim Park hasn't been affected by a natural disaster, it's been a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Kevin Bullis A new solar cell material has properties that might lead to solar cells more than twice as efficient as the best on the market today. An article this week in the journal Natu… Read More
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