Stefano Boeri Architetti designs prefab COVID-19 vaccination centers for Italy
Stefano Boeri Architetti — the Milan-based architecture firm best known for the Vertical Forest skyscrapers —...
MVRDV designs BREEAM Excellent-targeted Matrix 1 for Amsterdam
MVRDV has shared its designs for the Matrix 1, an office and laboratory complex to be located in the heart of Amsterdam...
Vincent Callebaut proposes a green, food-producing footbridge for Paris
Vincent Callebaut Architectures has unveiled fantastical designs for the Green Line, a futuristic “inhabited...
Brussels train station transformed into wooden shopping and event center
The Gare Maritime railway station in Brussels has seen a huge transformation. The building, formerly one of Europe's...
Energy-neutral House of Eemnes is a sustainable “culture house”
Thirty minutes east of Amsterdam, the municipality of Eemnes has recently welcomed a beautiful community center...
Iconic Farnsworth House gets a conceptual, sustainable redesign
As a design exercise, California-based architecture firm Jeff Barrett Studio has reimagined Mies van der Rohe’s...
SOM designs a low-carbon waterfront community for China’s “most livable city”
Global design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled designs for Jiuzhou Bay, a new 5.6 million-square-foot...
LEED Platinum-seeking home in Cincinnati asks $3.25 million
Near the border of Ohio and Kentucky, a stunning sustainable home has hit the market for $3,249,000. Designed by...
West 8 and Studio 44 win Tuchkov Buyan Park competition in St. Petersburg
Rotterdam-based West 8 and Saint Petersburg-based Studio 44 have won an international competition with their design...
Disney World McDonald's to be first net-zero fast food restaurant
Chicago-based Ross Barney Architects has given the iconic McDonald's at Walt Disney World Resort a sustainable...
Christophe Caranchini proposes resilient floating houses for Kiribati
The Republic of Kiribati, a small nation of islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean, is a tropical paradise...
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...
"Climate-neutral" Spiral Tower lets you see the city from new heights
A Dutch consortium of companies has teamed up to propose an ambitious city landmark — the Spiral Tower, an eco-friendly...
Guallart Architects unveil winning bid for a self-sufficient community in China
Barcelona-based Guallart Architects has won an international competition for its design of a mixed-use, self-sufficient...
Pittsburgh leads in green energy with largest single sloped solar array in the US
The shift from non-renewable sources of energy to green energy continues to gain momentum. In the past few years,...
