Pratt Students Convert Everyday Waste into Viable Products and Materials
The new Material Lab Prize recognizes emerging talents who create designs and composites out of reclaimed waste.
Sustainability
A Financial Campus in Sydney Takes a Holistic Approach in its Pursuit of Sustainability
Woods Bagot's design for Axle, a new office campus for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia puts sunlight—and sustainability—front and center.
Verdical Group’s 7th Annual Net Zero Conference: Building a Net Zero Future
The event offers resources, tools, and information to help the architecture and design industry adapt to the future of net zero buildings.
Swurve-ing Towards a Greener Future
Keilhauer launches Swurve, its first fully carbon-neutral chair.
Mahlum Architects' New Office is the First Living Building–Certified Project in Portland
By following rigorous LBC guidelines, the group has turned the location into a model of its organizational values, including sustainable design.
Understanding Polyester Alternatives
Here's a polyester primer for differentiating the sustainable options designers have when specifying these ubiquitous plastics.
Tools and Resources from the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability Symposium
The Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability Symposium yielded deep conversations and plenty of insight into deepening the practice of sustainable design.
Low Cost, High Impact: The Drawdown Review Suggests That Architects Move Toward Scalable Climate Solutions
Climate change expert Jesse M. Keenan analyzes the The Drawdown Review's recommendations for architects and designers.
Formafantasma Seeks to Redefine What Ecology Means in Today’s Complex Design World
Through exhibitions and an upcoming master’s program, the Amsterdam-based duo is trailblazing a more dynamic approach to sustainability.
Announcing Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability 2020
Metropolis’s bi-annual sustainability symposium returns in a virtual format, providing access to free, in-depth webinars.
Erin Moore’s Pipeline Portals Are a Spatial Response to Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Occupying lands threatened by the contested Pacific Connector Pipeline, the trio of thatched pavilions subvert the “human supremacy of shelter.”
Are Our COVID-19 Responses Missing the Big Picture?
We must keep the climate costs of our post-COVID workplaces in mind as we plan for a new normal, writes Gensler’s director of sustainable design practice.
Can Quarantine Propel Us Toward Planetary Sanctuary?
Critic Mimi Zeiger reflects on refugia and the regenerative potential of crisis.
SmithGroup's Sacramento Office for a Construction Pro Showcases the Client's Expertise
While adapting two buildings as one new Sacramento workplace for DPR Construction, the architects created a showcase of the builder's best practices.
Announcing the Metropolis Sustainability Lab
The Lab is a place to learn more about sustainable design and specification, and connect with key experts and manufacturers.
How Can Designers Specify for the Environment in a Disposable Era?
Amanda Schneider, president of ThinkLab, offers research-backed insights on the challenges and opportunities designers are facing.
This Sustainable Office Does More with Less
Without touching the building's envelope or MEP, LPA has designed a workplace that consumes 70 percent less energy than comparable structures.
Architect Richard Parr Adapts a 19th Century Farm as a Sprawling Home Office
His UK-based firm has converted a cluster of agricultural outbuildings in the English countryside into a series of imaginative workspaces.
Can Indigenous Technology Point the Way to a More Sustainable Future?
A new book proposes that traditional ecological knowledge could provide a model for sustainable and resilient infrastructures.
At the Planned Danish Olympic Pavilion, Chairs Form the Architecture
Sustainable construction specialists Lendager Group have created a modular, demountable structure for the Tokyo games.
