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Green-roofed Honey Bee Research Centre targets LEED Gold

Toronto-based architecture firm Moriyama & Teshima Architects has unveiled renderings for the new Honey Bee...

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Luxury resort in Bali pays homage to traditional village design

Already well-known for creating large-scale public works like eco-parks and museums, Dutch architectural practice...

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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...

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Off-grid beach retreat is ‘carved’ into the dunes of Cape Cod

Brooklyn-based firm Studio Vural has unveiled an incredible concept design for an off-grid beach retreat, which...

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Low-impact summer retreat boasts solar panels and a green roof

Seattle-based firm Heliotrope Architects has just completed work on a gorgeous summer home located on Orcas Island,...

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Green-roofed Stonecrop home rises from rural English landscape

London-based architecture firm Featherstone Young recently completed Stonecrop, a new home in Rutland,...

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“Temple of Poop” grows a flowering rooftop with human waste

Latvian design and build workshop Zeltini has made answering the call of nature into an environmental statement...

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York University’s new green-roofed student center celebrates inclusivity

After overwhelmingly voting in favor of a second campus building devoted solely to student space, students at Toronto’s...

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Green-roofed brick home ‘disappears’ into the landscape

Antwerp-based studio Studio Okami Architects has unveiled a design that masterfully blends a home into its surrounding...

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LEED-Platinum learning lab is a beacon of sustainability

In a bold move to embrace environmental education, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine recently welcomed the Roux...

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San Francisco library boasts a green roof and LEED Gold status

When Hacker Architects redesigned a historic, 1969 branch library in the southeastern Bayview neighborhood of San...

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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...

two images. to the left, a dark colored building with widows and a glass-walled structure on the ground floor. a small green lawn is in front of the sidewalk, where a person walks towards the building. to the right, two people walk towards a dark colored building with palm trees around it and a thin green lawn next to it

The Union Flats is a LEED Platinum-certified housing community

Prefab architecture and energy efficiency go hand-in-hand at The Union Flats, one of the largest completed modular...

the interior of the library, with several bookshelves in the kids' section, with yellow lanes on the floor

“Embroidered filtering skin” helps library regulate light

French design practice Serero Architectes Urbanistes has recently completed the new Bayeux Media Library, a light-filled...

an interior shot of the house. to the left are two modern looking mustard yellow chairs, with a small wooden table between them and two windows behind the chairs on the wall. a long rectangular artwork is on the wall behind them. to the right you can see into another room with a kitchen and purple chair.

Stunning, sustainable lodge blends into beautiful landscape

Romanian architecture firm BLIPSZ has created a near-autonomous holiday home that combines the charms of rural...

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This container home in Brazil helps its residents disconnect

The 2,766-square-foot Hanging House was designed by the architects of Casa Container Marília in the rural area...

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White, latticed exoskeleton wraps a LEED Platinum office in Madrid

On the side of a large roundabout in Madrid, Spanish architecture firm Rafael de La-Hoz has realized the eye-catching...

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Green-roofed sports center adds sculptural appeal to the Augustow riverfront

Polish architecture firms PSBA and INOONI have recently completed a strikingly angular water sports center in the...

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A rich vegetable garden grows atop a unique home in Vietnam

In Vietnam’s coastal region of Quang Ngai, a one-of-a-kind home with a roof topped with fresh vegetables has...

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MVRDV’s garden “oasis” in Utrecht includes a green-roofed convention center

MVRDV has unveiled designs to transform the underutilized area on the west side of Utrecht’s central station...

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Solar-powered Dutch home produces all of its own energy with surplus to spare

When Marjo Dashorst and Han Roebers set their sights on designing a sustainable home in Zutphen, a municipality...

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ZHA completes LEED Gold-targeted building with world’s largest atrium in Beijing

In China’s capital city, Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Leeza SOHO tower, a 45-story skyscraper that...

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BIG’s LEED Gold-seeking school in Arlington features a cascade of green terraces

After five years in the making, BIG has completed The Heights, a new public school building in Arlington, Virginia...

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LAVA designs carbon-neutral LIFE Hamburg with an edible green roof

LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) has teamed up with urban agricultural collective Cityplot to design...

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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...

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First Smart Forest City in Mexico will be 100% food and energy self-sufficient

Milan-based architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled innovative designs for a nature-infused smart...

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Four alpine apartments rise from a green-roofed complex in the Czech Republic

Czech architecture firm ov-a recently replaced a former 1980s department store in the mountain town of Pec pod...

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Green-roofed CLT classrooms immerse children in nature

After transforming a historic castle into a secondary school for the Groenendaal College, Antwerp architectural...

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Ski atop the world’s cleanest waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen

Six years after breaking ground, CopenHill — a waste-to-energy plant topped with a year-round ski slope — is...

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LEED Platinum Sitka captures the Pacific Northwest spirit with a lush, fog-enabled courtyard

Local architectural practice Runberg Architecture Group has raised the bar for sustainable design in Seattle with...

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