Sustainability
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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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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.
Sean Parham, VP of Product Marketing and Management with Aditazz Photo: Adam Grubb
BD+C’s inaugural AEC innovation conference, Accelerate Live! (May 11, Chicago), featured...
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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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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.
Rendering courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architects.
The project will be covered in 1,100 trees and 2,500 cascading plants and shrubs.
Rendering courtesy of R8 Properties.
Over it’s 60-year lifespan, the power generated form the project would cover the energy cost of c...
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Rendering courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures
At the heart of Vincent Callebaut Architectures’ eco-neighborhood will be three 100-meter-tall Ve...
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Georgia Tech Research Institute has a contract to install tiles embedded with piezoelectric material into the “vapor trail” of the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Fla. The activated tiles act as a kind of keyboard that shows the planet and different aspects of NASA’s mission statement. Courtesy Formations Studio.
Research on piezoelectricity moves closer to practical applications for infrastructure and buildi...
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Hassalo on 8th, the first new residential building complex within the Lloyd EcoDistrict in Portland, Ore., has its water treated and recycled through the largest natural urban wastewater system in North America. Provided by Biohabitats and engineered by Glumac, the system, which also serves an office building in the ecodistrict, was installed as a tradeoff with the city for lower utility hookup fees. Photo: American Assets Trust/GBD Architects.
EcoDistricts is helping cities visualize a bigger picture that connects their communities.
Rendering courtesy of Carlo Ratti Associati
Energy created by those exercising within would power the gym down the Seine.
Image courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures
The building sits just a few blocks from the LEED-Platinum certified Taipei 101, the world’s eigh...
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Rendering courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
The hotel looks to create a symbiosis between man, nature, and architecture.
