Net-zero energy CSI-IDEA building sets the standard for low-impact architecture in Europe

Architecture firm EZAR and architect Juan Blazquez designed the CSI-IDEA Building in Malaga, Spain as a standard for net zero energy architecture.

Massive solar-powered garden towers to spring up in Tokyo

Tokyo’s urban jungle is about to become a whole lot greener. Dutch firm ingenhoven architects unveiled designs for the Toranomon Project, a mixed-use development draped with greenery.

CBF's Brock Environmental Center to be awarded prestigious "Living Building" certification

Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Brock Environmental Centeer, which operates on net zero energy and net zero water, is about to receive the world most prestigious accolade in sustainable building: a Living Building certification.

Could Acre Designs' venture-backed net zero energy houses revolutionize the home building industry?

Backed by startup incubator Y Combinator, Acre Designs is poised to transform the house building industry with prefabricated, net zero energy homes that are affordable and sustainable.

Paolo Venturella Architecture's Global Cooling Skyscraper would cool the entire planet

Italian architects Paolo Venturella and Cosimo Scotucci designed a Global Cooling Skyscraper that would use wind power to cool the planet and battle global warming.

Solar-powered Polak building paves the way to a more sustainable university campus

The campus of the future will undoubtedly incorporate sustainable design, and Erasmus University in Rotterdam wants to pave the way by leading through example.

Luxury Home With a Small Footprint

Australia-based Austin Maynard Architects have recently completed a luxury home in Melbourne called That House. It's ultra modern and very sustainable, with a footprint of about half that of the surrounding houses. The home is also powered by solar energy, and features a rainwater collection system.

8 homes that generate more energy than they consume

We've rounded up eight plus-energy homes that can produce more energy than they need, with some so powerful that they can even light up the house next door.

In Bali, Bamboo Architecture Offers Model for a Sustainable Future

  • 14 Feb 2016

How do you build a future out of grass? On the Indonesian island of Bali, one organization has set out to do just that. Ibuku, an architecture and furniture design firm based outside of Denpasar, Bali’s capital, is using Dendrocalamus asper bamboo—or petung in Balinese—to construct Green Village.

Urban Plant Tower would allow tenants to grow food year-round in a flourishing winter garden

Designed to be a fully sustainable urban living complex, Urban Plant may be a model for green-based urban architecture of the future.

Winning ship-like residential block proposal for Paris is covered with a thousand trees

Sou Fujimoto Architects and Manal Rachdi OXO Architects have designed a green glass residential development in Paris.

Iskandar Malaysia's new multi-billion dollar eco-city is pretty ambitious

“Southeast Asia’s largest green city” will also be a car-free zone. The first phase of Forest City, a mixed-use, sustainable development spanning 13.86 sq km in Iskandar Malaysia, was recently unveiled for public viewing to whet the appetite of regional investors.

China unveils vision of future city

‘IF YOU build it they will come.’ This is the thinking guiding one of China’s most ambitious projects — a plan to build a “smart” city for 500,000 people, from scratch, on four man-made islands in South-East Asia.

Designed For The Future: Media TIC - Barcelona, Spain

Media TIC integrates technology into its structure in a way unlike any other building. It is part of the very framework that the building is built on.