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Made using sustainable materials like local wood and low-emissivity glass, the Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange City Reception Center helps link the area’s surrounding ecological forest with the architecture of China and...

New buildings offer an opportunity for innovations in efficiency and eco-friendly design. ZAS Architects, in collaboration with Bucholz McEvoy Architects, considered these goals in the design for the Toronto and Region Conservation...

A Scandinavian-inspired eco-friendly getaway has popped up in a Slovakian forest with the completion of the ‘Tree Houses,’ a cluster of prefab cabins for Hotel Björnson in the heart of the Jasná ski resort...

When long-time Queen Anne residents Tracy and Greg Adams found the perfect hillside location for their new modern home, they tapped local design firms Lane Williams Architecture and Swivel Interiors to craft...

Last year, Triodos Bank welcomed its newest office, a green-roofed circular building that raises the bar for sustainable architecture. Designed by Amsterdam-based firm RAU Architects in collaboration with Dutch interior design...

After 33 years of working in an old drafty building in Oxfordshire, international nonprofit CABI has upgraded to a new low-energy home that combines beautiful design with employee wellness and environmental sustainability...

After living as a modern nomad for years, Ondřej Koníček finally decided to settle down by realizing his dream cabin on a 20,000-square-meter wooded property in southeast Czech Republic...

Community building recently received a boost in Toronto's bustling downtown core with the completion of the new $65 million Canoe Landing Campus, a social nexus that combines a community recreation center, public and Catholic...

In the heart of Copenhagen, C.F. Møller Architects has completed the Carlsberg Central Office, a new office of the Carlsberg Group on the same hill that the world-famous Carlsberg Breweries was first established in 1847....

Architectural firm Brooks + Scarpa recently unveiled its design concept for the new Miami Beach Aquatic Center and Park. Among two pools and thousands of square feet worth of retail and community space, the project will highlight...

Global design practice Perkins and Will has raised the bar for sustainable campus design with the award-winning Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, a Ryerson University facility designed to achieve LEED Gold certification...

Barcelona-based studio ERA Architects is raising the bar for sustainable camping with its Pinea Mobile Ecological RV. The RV, which uses natural materials in its construction along with other eco-friendly features, is a prototype...

Mumbai-based architecture competition platform Volume Zero has announced the winners of the 2020 Tiny House Architecture Competition, a call for entries that celebrate sustainability and individuality through innovative design...

When Portland-based Skylab Architecture was asked by the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services to design an extension of a wastewater treatment facility, sustainability was immediately identified as a key...

This summer, the Chinese city of Jiaxing will welcome an innovative transportation hub that will be topped with a lush "borderless park" to bring nature back to the urban environment...