
A new LEED Gold civic center will reinvigorate downtown Long Beach
As part of Long Beach’s largest public-private partnership effort to date, international architecture firm SOM...

Spectacular town hall doubles as a bridge in Denmark’s Faroe Islands
When Copenhagen-based Henning Larsen Architects was tapped to design the Town Hall in Eysturkommuna, the firm knew...

A massive pollution-fighting green wall engulfs this Dutch city hall
When the Dutch city of Venlo decided to become the world’s first region to fully adopt Cradle to Cradle (C2C)...

Cigarette factory reborn as a light-filled city hall in Brussels
A building that once belonged to a cigarette factory has shed its smoky past for a new life in civil service. Mamout...

This train station which doubles as city hall in Sweden will function as an "urban living room"
The new station and city hall in the southern Swedish city of Växjö is an urban living room that gathers several...

Video Interview with green prefab home designer Michelle Kaufmann
At a West Coast Green conference in San Francisco, we were lucky enough to not only get a sneak peek of the Michelle...

Vo Trong Nghia's Green City Hall doubles as a verdant vertical park
"The proposal is conceived as the catalyst for the future green development of Bac Ninh City," said Vo Trong Nghia...

Sweden’s greenest City Hall is topped by solar panels and a green roof in Lund
Equipped with solar panels and earth water cooling, Lund City Hall only uses a fraction of the energy normally...

7-Story Indoor Green Wall is an Enormous Air Filter for Solar-Powered Seoul City Hall
When the 13-story new Seoul City Hall was first unveiled in 2012, the curvaceous modern glass building sparked...

Lush Curvaceous Green Wall Grows in iArc Architects' New Seoul City Hall
iArc Architects designed Seoul's new city hall as the bridge between the city's history and sustainability-minded...

Henning Larsen's Swedish City Hall Modernizes the Arctic Tundra
The Crystal earned its title from the building's division into two architectural volumes: the inner building is...

New Newport Beach Civic Center and Park Aiming for LEED Silver
The design of the City Hall is marked by the iconic ‘sail’ of the council chambers room as well as the...

Please Touch Community Garden Greens Abandoned San Francisco Lot
GK Callahan is the director of the Please Touch project, and is also a teacher at the nearby Lighthouse for the...

14 of the World's Most Amazing Subways!
Some of our favorites include the Drassanes Station in Barcelona, which was given a swanky facelift by ON-A Architects...

Rotterdam Plans Most Sustainable Building in the Netherlands
The city of Rotterdam recently released a bevy of gorgeous green designs for a new mixed-use city hall building...