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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens LEEDs the way in green design

“Imagine the beauty of humanity living in harmony with nature.” This is the goal behind the ongoing work to...

holiday home with oxidized steel and glass exterior

Rainwater-capturing holiday home is an extension of the landscape

Early last year, Mexican architecture firm fabian m escalante h | arquitectos completed a holiday home in the central...

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This “quarantine” cabin made of hyper-local CLT was built in just 5 months

An eco-friendly architectural solution to quarantining during the pandemic has popped up in Barcelona’s Collserola...

A pond in front of a courtyard where people mill around in front of a large building with curved rooftops.

ZHA designs sustainable expansion to China's largest international exhibition center

Beijing's New China International Exhibition Center — the largest international exhibition center in China —...

A skycraper that twists upward like a DNA strand.

"Carbon-absorbing" vertical forest skyscraper nears completion in Taipei

Paris-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures has revealed new photos of Tao Zhu Yin Yuan, a LEED Gold-certified...

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Pinea RV has its very own green roof

Barcelona-based studio ERA Architects is raising the bar for sustainable camping with its Pinea Mobile Ecological...

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This home in Vietnam stays cool with a rooftop rainwater sprinkler

Located in Hai Duong, Vietnam, this solar-powered home designed by H&P Architects and completed in 2020 is...

stacked gray home with slanted roof and floor-to-ceiling windows

A net-zero compact home in Seattle is inspired by Shibui minimalism

Refined, elemental and minimal: these words were the inspiration behind a recently completed net-zero home in West...

two images: to the left, an open door leads to a sitting area inside a home with walls made of wood and glass. to the right, two people on ladders painting a wall blue.

Community First! provides affordable, permanent micro-housing

Community First! Village in Austin, a 51-acre sustainable development, provides affordable housing to...

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The prefab Tiny Tetra House in Bali is made of recycled waste

Launched by Stilt Studios, the Tiny Tetra House in Bali is a small, prefabricated home that makes use of recycled...

adobe dome home under a starry night sky

Solar-powered dome in the Texas desert is the perfect place to go off the grid

The Terluna off-grid adobe dome home is located in a remote part of the Texas desert near Big Bend National Park,...

tan home with large outdoor patio and an infinity pool

This energy-efficient home in Spain has a rainwater-fed infinity pool

Find Casa Palerm on the beautiful Balearic island of Mallorca, located in the Spanish Mediterranean. The area is...

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Solar-powered Brink Tower is a sustainable solution to Amsterdam’s housing shortage

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has won an international competition with the design for the Brink Tower, a new...

large, tall white home with cantilevered roofs and a large swimming pool in the center

Luxury home in Kerala produces all of its own energy

Thrissur-based design studio LIJO RENY Architects has taken full advantage of Kerala’s sunny, tropical climate...

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Rehabilitation Center of China is topped with a healing roof garden

Stefano Boeri Architetti’s Chinese office has won an international competition with its design for the Rehabilitation...

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