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Win-Win

How NYSERDA grants are helping Bernheimer Architecture decarbonize River Commons and Penn South

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The Lego Principle

Herzog & de Meuron completes HORTUS, a modular timber office building in Basel, with landscape architect Piet Oudolf

3d printed home
Printing Palaces

Endemic Architecture debuts Corduroy Castles, a distinct row of 3D-printed homes in a rural California town

“Stealth Opening”

The Smithsonian’s Art x Climate Gallery, by way of the Fifth National Climate Assessment, triumphs despite the circumstances

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Otherworldly

Squire & Partners restores and expands London’s Brutalist landmark Space House

College of the Atlantic, won a COTE award
Over Achieving

AIA announces 2025 COTE Award winners

Donald Trump in the Oval Office
Big, Beautiful Bull

Here’s how the Trump administration’s FY 2026 budget could impact housing, climate, architecture schools and nonprofits

Aerial view of Boulder County. City in the foreground with mountains in the background.
Rooted in Place

Superbloom answers Boulder County’s call for nature-based resiliency

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Everybody Knows

The third installment in Alan Weisman’s trilogy examines the built environment’s relationship with the current ecological crisis

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“Mistaken Identity”

Trump administration moves to terminate Energy Star program

a presentation at the Biophilic Leadership Summit
Forest Bathing

The Biophilic Leadership Summit explores how the natural world can improve the built environment

Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials joined representatives from the US Green Building Council (USGBC) on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, to unveil a plaque honoring the Fulton Center as the first New York City subway hub to receive a LEED® rating for sustainability and design
Leader in Sustainability

LEED launches updated standards. Do they go far enough?

Gulf Coast Ecocenter lit-up at nighttime
Brighter Pastures

ArchitectureWorks and WATERSHED offer a sustainability master class with the Gulf Coast Ecocenter in Alabama

cover of A Moratorium on New Construction
Basta!

AN talks to Charlotte Malterre-Barthes about A Moratorium on New Construction

Interior courtyard rendering of embassy designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Don’t Say “Climate”

The Bureau of Overseas Building Operations sent a memo restricting sustainability language for architects

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One-Stop Shop

Dave Bennink announces New York City Reuse Innovation Center to help boost circular economy

New Lots Library rendering showing timber interiors
Time for Timber

The U.S. can preserve its forests by building smartly with new and old techniques and technologies

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Guessing Game

Trump administration tariff announcements cause varying impacts on sustainable building product industries, but uncertainty everywhere

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