Academy Museum of Motion Pictures achieves LEED Gold certification
The nation’s first large-scale museum devoted entirely to filmmaking has earned LEED Gold certification months...
A clever, garden-filled facelift revives a derelict building in Denmark
Copenhagen-based architecture firm Tegnestuen LOKAL has radically reinvented one of the “ugliest” buildings...
Montana Heritage Center renovation will celebrate the state’s history and geology
A multimillion dollar expansion and renovation project is underway in Helena, Montana for the Montana Historical...
5 buildings on this Missouri campus just achieved LEED Platinum
The Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri has just reached a major sustainable building...
Miami Beach Convention Center receives a stunning LEED Silver makeover
Global design firm Fentress Architects and Arquitectonia have given the 1950s-era Miami Beach Convention Center...
Midcentury warehouse becomes a community-building asset in Mexico City
In a bid to sustainably create more inclusive and connective space in Mexico City, local architecture practice...
Old industrial building is now an energy-efficient complex in London
International practice Make Architects has transformed a 1950s industrial building into the Asta House, a mixed-use...
A midcentury home receives a sensitive renovation in Montreal
Local practice Salem Architecture has recently renovated the Maison Ave Courcelette, a stately, midcentury home...
A disused factory becomes an office with a landscaped bamboo roof terrace
Located in Shenzhen, China, the If Factory utilizes a sustainable design that transforms an old and disused factory...
ORA inserts a modern home into a romantic brick ruin
When Znojmo-based architecture studio ORA was tapped to reconstruct a fascinating old ruin into a new home in the...
Gensler upcycles an old warehouse into creative offices in Austin
At the heart of East Austin, an old and uninviting warehouse has been transformed into a creative office building...
Old Polish barn transforms into a cool contemporary home
Poznań-based design studio mode:lina recently transformed a decrepit old barn into the Ślonsko Chałpa...
1973 Airstream is an ‘easy-breezy’ off-grid home with a fold-out deck
Design-build firm Innovative Spaces worked with a client to bring her tiny-home-on-wheels dream to fruition by...
UNStudio installs new energy-generating facade for solar producer Hanwha’s HQ
UNStudio has completed renovations of the Hanwha headquarters in Seoul — all without disrupting the building’s...
Nina+Co sustainably furnishes a zero-waste London restaurant
In an industry notorious for food waste, award-winning chef Douglas McMaster has achieved the seemingly unattainable...
Grade II listed Victorian home undergoes a green renovation
London-based firm Will Gamble Architects has breathed new life into a dilapidated building in the small village...
A pair of industrial buildings are reborn as a creative office in Portland
In Northwest Portland, two former industrial structures have been given a new lease on life as Redfox Commons,...
The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon HQ gets a green renovation
Portland-based LEVER Architecture has breathed new life into The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon headquarters with...
A heritage industrial site becomes a dreamy wilderness retreat in Australia
In the middle of Australia’s deepest lake, a historic industrial site has been reborn as Pumphouse Point, a charming...
A Brisbane cottage is sustainably updated to gracefully age in place
In Brisbane’s leafy suburb of Paddington, Australian architectural practice Shaun Lockyer Architects has created...
This modern art museum was once a cheese factory in Arkansas
In Bentonville, Arkansas, a giant factory that once processed cheese for Kraft Foods has been given new life as...
Century-old building is reborn as a LEED Platinum home in San Francisco
When architect Jonathan Feldman of Feldman Architecture began remodeling his home in San Francisco in the early...
1920s building in Buenos Aires becomes a gorgeous, solar-powered residence
Buenos Aires is known for its beautiful architecture, but retaining the city's historic character while breathing...
Portugal-based nonprofit refurbishes old buildings with natural insulation
With a background in social initiatives, nonprofit Critical Concrete aims to refurbish socially relevant spaces...
BREEAM-certified renovation for 70s modernist icon in Amsterdam
MVSA Architects has dramatically breathed new life into Amsterdam’s iconic Rivierstaete — a monolithic 1973...
Restored Georgian townhouse has rainwater-fed green roof
The Sun Rain Room is an extension and restoration of a two-story Grade-II listed townhouse designed and constructed...
A nearly century-old Copenhagen school gets an eco-friendly makeover
Danish architectural practice JJW Architects has used recycled bricks and Cradle-to-Cradle certified mortar to...
A 1980s Madrid home gets a modern and energy-efficient facelift
In Madrid’s affluent residential district of La Moraleja, local architectural practice CSO Arquitectura has given...
Historic schoolhouse is reborn into a contemporary hotel in the Columbia River Gorge
Historic preservation meets modern hospitality design in The Society Hotel in the Columbia River Gorge, a new 20,000-square-foot...
Green-roofed addition brings a mid-century home into the 21st century
There are few things we love more than witnessing the transformation of something old into something new — and...