Sustainability
The Bexar Metro 911 Regional Operations Center in Texas includes areas where employees can get brief respites from their stressful jobs. The design and construction emphasize natural light and air quality. Image: Courtesy of Page
The Operations Center consolidates activities that previously were being handled at 25 locations....
Rendering courtesy Carlo Ratti Associati
Carlo Ratti Associati designed the garden with an innovative net-zero energy climate control syst...
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Photo courtesy of Perkins + Will.
Over 100 wellness features are incorporated into CBRE’s Vancouver office.
Image courtesy of DoepelStrijkers
The sustainable structure will be a mixed-use development with a hotel, apartments, and office sp...
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Rendering courtesy of Luxigon / Mir and Kengo Kuma Associates
Kengo Kuma is designing the hotel, which will feature a large garden and a plant-covered façade. ...
Rendering courtesy of B+H + mcCallumSather
The project’s net-zero goals led to the development of a new curtain wall system.
Courtesy of Arctic Bath.
The hotel will feature a cold bath and be in a good location for viewing the northern lights.
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Photo courtesy of Halkin Mason Photography.
The SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus in Bethlehem, Pa., receives the gold medal and $50,000....
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Building efficiency essential to tempering global climate change.
Rendering: Forbes Massie
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture wants to create a school powered by the River Thames.
Rendering courtesy EFFEKT.
A 600-meter treetop path culminates with a 45-meter-tall spiraling observation deck.
Rendering courtesy of Lever Architecture
The building’s design, building materials, and commercial tenants are all focused on the key aspe...
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Trent Bell Photography.
Leadership training center becomes New England’s first Passive House building.
Image courtesy of PortLiving.
The wood, concrete, and glass building will rise approximately 233 feet when finished.
Rendering courtesy of MIR.
The buildings are on an elevated platform and the surrounding walkways are suspended so as not to...
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Photo courtesy of Miniwiz
The building is made of Polli-Brick, a building material that comes from 100% recycled Polyethyle...
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In its 21st year, the Top Ten Awards highlight projects that exemplify the integration of great d...
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Rendering courtesy HOK
The stadium is now scheduled to open on Aug. 26 in a preseason game between the Falcons and the J...
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Rendering courtesy of Architects of Invention.
Garden Hill will provide an ‘oasis-like residence’ for Birmingham’s growing, multicultural studen...
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Image courtesy Sasaki
Vertical farms will bring new farmable space to the city.
SOM, this project's architect, softened the Public Safety Answering Center II's exterior with a reflective aluminum façade. Courtesy SOM/©Albert Vecerka|Esto.
SOM’s design for New York’s second Public Safety Answering Center leans on strategically placed w...
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The research involved investigating the feasibility of adapting the design of a sustainable mixed-use high-rise building in the 2016 New York City market to Passivhaus requirements. Rendering: FXFOWLE
A new study conducted by FXFOWLE shows that Building Teams can meet stringent Passivhaus performa...
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Clover Payments, a payments software startup, installed a 30x22-ft living wall in its office in Sunnyvale, Calif., a net-zero-energy building. The wall provides air filtration for the company's tenants. Image: Courtesy Habitat Horticulture
One installer offers his thoughts on why, and what works.
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The product-specific EPDs allow designers to more quickly earn a LEED v4 credit in the Materials...
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PlanIt Impact's cloud-based platform is helping CB Properties and Milhaus Development plan a $24.3 million mixed-use building on 27th and Troost Streets in Kansas City, which will include 182 market-rate apartments and 12,000 sf of commercial space. The developers are using this platform to better understand operational costs so tenant occupancy would be more affordable. Image; Planit Impact
PlanIt Impact's sustainability scoring is based on myriad government and research data.
Rendering courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures
The mixed-use towers would each rise 36 stories into the sky and connect via rooftop skybridges....
Rendering courtesy of Curated Properties
Curated Properties and Windmill Developments have teamed up to create a mixed-use building with f...
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Image courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
The architect behind China’s first vertical forest skyscraper has bigger plans for entire cities...
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Rendering courtesy of MVRDV
The plants will represent 250 species found in South Korea.
