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Healing by Design: Four youth-centered environments aim to soothe kids—mind body, and soul
Drawing it Down: Landscape architects seek to quantify the carbon impacts of their projects
A New Lease on Life: As vacancy rates rise, developers and architects transform outdated office buil...
Nature’s Edge
Straws in the Wind: Perceptions of agriculturally sourced building materials are changing (again)
Waste Not, Want Not: Architects and engineers reduce construction’s excesses and minimize carbon e...
You Spin Me Round: Advances in circular construction could help address the climate crisis and resha...
Rethinking the Office: Research can guide architects in designing for flexibility and creativity
In Pursuit of Zero: A trio of projects in different climates and settings offers insights for living...
Suite Life: Biophilic design and the hospitality sector are a natural fit.
Role Models: Three housing developments achieve lofty social and environmental goals on tight budget...
Seeds of Change: Architects and landscape architects are helping create new growing strategies to co...
Street Smarts: Designers restrict cars to make space on city roads for pedestrians, cyclists, and va...
The Living Building Challenge Grows Up: A stringent standard for regenerative design expands its rea...
Brain Trust: Architects engage with users to create environments that support those with a multiplic...
Fresh Faced: For three moribund buildings, new envelopes restart the clock
The Power of Light: Skillful daylighting enhances the experiential qualities of museums while showca...
From the Ground Up: To help meet ambitious climate goals, universities turn to district-scale geo-ex...
The High Life: Can adapting empty commercial towers revive business districts and allay the housing ...
Grass Roots: With its rapid growth cycle and ability to store carbon, bamboo has new appeal as a bui...
Made to Shade: As heat waves intensify, passive cooling strategies for building and public space can...
Home at Last: Architects design to support aging in place for the growing elder population
Material Makeover: The design and construction industry chips away at concrete’s outsize carbon fo...
Architects grapple with the lack of consistent industry terminology for building performance
Forced-Labor Free: Architects embrace the nascent movement to reform the supply chains for building ...
Architects are helping colleges and universities get to carbon neutrality—and beyond.
As awareness of the emissions associated with materials and construction grows, architects take a mo...
In the Heights: Designers look to wood to help tackle the climate crisis, pushing the material to it...
Putting Down Roots: MASS Design Group’s Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture breaks new g...
From resilient housing to handling heatwaves
The Fine Print: Will additive manufacturing technology revolutionize residential design and construc...
The Conversation: How to talk to clients about ambitious environmental targets and get their buy-in.
The Big Drawdown: Will removing carbon from the atmosphere save us? And how will buildings play a ro...
Carbon Calculus: Architects reduce embodied emissions by revamping existing structures instead of bu...
Risk Management: Designers create learning environments that respond to the threats of a warming pla...
Get Smart: Though still a nascent technology, AI promises to transform the design process and the bu...
Immaterial Material: Digital media give architects a powerful tool for transforming the experience o...
Life Lessons: Architects turn to biology for solutions to all that ails us.
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