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LEED Platinum housing for the homeless takes over a formerly vacant L.A. lot

Los Angeles-based design practice Michael Maltzan Architecture has transformed a vacant suburban lot into the...

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A disused railway will become a sustainable green corridor in Taiwan

Delft-based architecture firm Mecanoo has unveiled designs to transform a disused railway and dyke in Taichung,...

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Brooklyn Grange announces a new location — in a former WWII shipyard

Inhabitat is thrilled to announce that New York City urban farming group Brooklyn Grange is launching its first...

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Hundred-year-old worker’s cottage transformed into a light-filled eco home

When Altereco Design was approached to overhaul a hundred-year-old worker’s cottage in Melbourne, the clients...

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A lush rooftop oasis flourishes on this renovated Art Deco townhouse in Mexico City

A derelict Art Deco structure has been reborn as Casa Verne - a secluded getaway in the center of a busy Mexico...

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Light-filled family home embraces a British Islands’ native landscape

When DLM Architects was asked to create an energy-efficient and sustainable family home in St Peter Port of Guernsey,...

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A lush green roof of native plants breathes life into this Texan cabana

This minimalist concrete-and-glass cabana looks as if it rose straight from the ground thanks to its beautiful...

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Climate change art illustrates sea level rise in Venice during COP 23

Artist Andreco has unveiled his latest art installation, Climate 04-Sea Level Rise in Venice, to raise awareness...

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Solar-powered Noe Hill Smarthome is an eco-friendly dream in San Francisco

The LEED Platinum-certified Noe Hill Smart Ecohome marries state-of-the-art green technology and the indoor-outdoor...

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OMA’s MPavilion 2017 with a floating roof opens today in Melbourne

Melbourne is heating up for the summer with a new OMA-designed amphitheater. OMA founder Rem Koolhaas and colleague...

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Washington’s new Tukwila Library is topped with a carbon-negative green roof

Architecture firm Perkins+Will recently announced the completion of King County's Tukwila Library – a 10,000-square-foot...

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Mexican winery built from recycled wood and rammed earth blends into the valley landscape

Mexico’s booming wine country of Valle de Guadalupe in Baja California recently welcomed the chic BRUMA winery,...

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Kansas University students build net-zero home with LEED Platinum and Passive House certification

Most school projects don’t move past campus grounds, but that’s not the case for the works of Kansas University’s...

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Armenia’s first BREEAM-certified building is an earthquake-resistant international school

Deep in the forested mountains of the Armenian town Dilijan—colloquially called “Little Switzerland”—stands...

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Old shipping container recycled into solar-powered learning lab in Colombia

Computer Aid International first approached Squire and Partners in 2014 for a more cost-effective and enjoyable...

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Clif Bar’s new Idaho bakery is an eco-friendly masterpiece of biophilic design

From an architectural perspective, the building certainly doesn’t look like a typical bakery. Designed by Idaho-based Babcock...

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San Francisco man singlehandedly revives a rare butterfly species in his own backyard

The California Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies used to flutter about San Francisco aplenty, but their populations...

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Hillside home in Sonora, Mexico features rammed earth walls and native landscaping

Sal Casa was built with the idea of honoring the landscape around it. To that end, the architects utilized rammed-earth...

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First urban park on Las Vegas Strip is ‘an oasis in the middle of the desert’

Rather than cutting down trees to put up a parking lot, !melk designed a park to take over a previously paved section...

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Sprawling green roof keeps Sag Harbor home cool in summer

The 5,000-square-foot residence includes four bedrooms, TV den, home office and a screened porch. The first floor...

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Nation’s largest green wall of native plants breathes life into SFMOMA

The massive living wall stands at nearly 30 feet in height and stretches to a width of 150 feet. David Brenner,...

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Green-roofed Canadian Canoe Museum will house the world’s largest collection of canoes and kayaks in Ontario

Located downstream of the historic Peterborough Lift Lock, the 7,500-square-meter Canadian Canoe Museum overlooks...

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How a parking lot makeover can reduce flooding, nourish native plants, and keep waterways clean

Would you ever guess that a parking lot could hold the key to reducing floods and keeping waterways clean? That's...

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James Corner Field Operations designs an iconic circular park for the Philadelphia Navy Yard

From above, the park looks curiously non-naturalistic with its hard circular shapes that may bring to mind AutoCAD...

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8 Water-saving solutions for your home

The drought in California is breaking records, and recent data suggests that the state may have just one year of...

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INTERSTICE Architects Unveil Fibonacci-Inspired Green Landscape at the USF Center for Science

INTERSTICE teamed up with the university, an engineering team and the building's architects to conceptualize a...

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INTERVIEW: Landscape Architect James Corner On NYC’s High Line Park

NYC’s High Line is a project that exemplifies effective adaptive urban re-use in a city that is littered with...

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Breathtaking Macro Portraits of Bees by Sam Droege

Droege has taken hundreds of photographs of insects from around the world. His macro portraits of bees from US...

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BVN Donovan Hill’s Passive Solar Australian PlantBank Houses 25,000 Indigenous Seeds

Built to preserve Australia's indigenous botanical heritage, the PlantBank consists of research laboratories and...

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The High Line’s Final Section Will Harken Back to a Wonderfully Wild Aesthetic

The High Line at the Rail Yards seeks to preserve the untamed and self-seeded landscape that first inspired the...

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