Sculptural aluminum roof keeps Cal Poly building cool
California State Polytechnic University's (Cal Poly) Pomona campus recently welcomed a new gateway building that...
LEED Platinum Stockman Bank harvests rainwater and solar power in Missoula
In Montana’s historic downtown Missoula, a Stockman Bank branch has recently earned LEED v4 Core and Shell Platinum...
Solar-powered Lowell Justice Center will be Massachusetts’ first LEED Platinum courthouse
Half-an-hour north of Boston, the Massachusetts city of Lowell has recently welcomed the new Lowell Justice Center,...
Silver Oak becomes world’s most sustainable winery
After a devastating fire ravaged the Silver Oak Winery in California’s Napa Valley nearly 15 years ago, the owners...
LEED Platinum-certified Half Moon Bay Library targets net-zero energy
At three times the size of its predecessor with a recently minted LEED Platinum certification, California’s Half...
LEED-seeking apartments house formerly homeless families in San Francisco
David Baker Architects has completed 222 Taylor, an affordable housing complex in San Francisco’s Tenderloin...
Charles Library boasts one of Pennsylvania’s largest green roofs
Contemporary, sustainable and welcoming, Temple University's new Charles Library in Philadelphia raises the bar...
Pittsburgh’s MuseumLab for children achieves LEED Gold
MuseumLab, one of Pittsburgh’s most creative and innovative youth learning spaces, has earned LEED Gold a year...
3XN unveils LEED Platinum-seeking Forskaren innovation center in Stockholm
Danish architecture firm 3XN has won a design competition for Forskaren, a new mixed-use innovation center for...
LEED Gold-targeted library and community park has otherworldly appeal
Toronto-based architecture firm RDHA has completed the Springdale Library and Komagata Maru Park, a new inclusive...
LEED Platinum Akademeia High School caters to millennials
When Medusa Group Architects was tasked to design a high school in Warsaw, the Polish interdisciplinary...
LEED Platinum high-rise in Toronto promotes sustainable living
Aqualina at Bayside, a new multistory residence in Toronto, has just earned LEED Platinum certification — a first...
LEED Gold-certified Azurmendi crowned “World’s Most Sustainable Restaurant”
Three-star Michelin restaurant Azurmendi has once again been crowned the “World’s Most Sustainable Restaurant”...
Eco-friendly spiritual living at Holy Wisdom Monastery
A basket of bread comes around, and the person next to me removes a chunk, holds it up and says, “Bread of life.”...
LEED Gold-targeted office mimics High Line via lush greenery
New York City’s award-winning High Line has attracted yet another sculptural building to its side — 512 West...
LEED Gold-targeted Ottawa library will honor local history
After nearly a year of public input by Canadians from coast to coast, Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects...
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...
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...
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...
ZHA unveils LEED Gold-targeted OPPO headquarters in Shenzhen
Zaha Hadid Architects has won an international competition to design Chinese tech giant OPPO’s new headquarters...
LEED Platinum-targeted Santa Monica apartments are powered by solar energy
Los Angeles-based design practice KFA Architecture has recently completed Pico Eleven, a new multi-unit residential...
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...
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...
LEED-certified ‘Cocoon House’ has colored skylights that create rainbows inside the home
The Hamptons have long been known as a summertime haven for busy New Yorkers, and one architect has created a personal...
Sculptural, solar-powered home generates more energy than it uses
In the Texan suburb of Addison just north of Dallas, 5G Studio Collaborative has completed the Winnwood Residence,...
Controversial climate change-inspired skyscraper could become Czech Republic’s tallest building
Inspired by the apocalyptic imagery from climate change projections, sculptor David Černý and architect Tomáš...
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...
Central Park to undergo $150M LEED Gold-targeted redesign
To cap the Central Park Conservancy’s 40-year renewal of Central Park, the nonprofit has unveiled designs to...
LEED Platinum Co|Lab Building brings first-ever CLT structure to Virginia
Earlier this summer, William McDonough + Partners and HITT Contracting officially opened Co|Lab, an innovative...
Striking LEED Silver-targeted tower to rise in the heart of Philadelphia
The heart of Philadelphia will soon be transformed with Schuylkill Yards, a $3.5 billion masterplanned neighborhood...