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Home Grown

A new set of manufacturers is producing carbon-storing, plant-based building materials sourced from the farms, forests, and factories of rural America

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Building for a Post-Carbon Future

In Material Reform, Material Cultures rethinks the cultures, systems, and infrastructures of how we make architecture

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Let There Be Shade

New French law requires most large parking lots to be blanketed with solar canopies

Arboreal Assist

At COP27, SOM unveils Urban Sequoia NOW, a “readily constructable,” carbon-absorbing tower

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Rikers Rebirth

Regional Plan Association and RISD reimagine NYC’s notorious Rikers Island as a green energy hub

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First of its Kind

LMN Architects completes University of Washington’s first mass timber building

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Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Mass Timber

The latest edition of AN’s TimberCon focused on sustainability while exploring the material’s design and engineering capabilities

And It’s Off!

SCAPE’s Town Branch Commons greenway opens in downtown Lexington, Kentucky

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The Coal War

Shuttered coalfield development in West Virginia will be transformed into renewable energy enterprise

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Top of its Class

Lake|Flato Architects designs a mass timber structure for Trinity University in San Antonio

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Ahead of the Game

Material Bank signs on to The Climate Pledge, committing to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040

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Upward, with Form and Policy

IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs

Putting Things Right

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation reaches $20.5 million settlement with homeowners in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

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Blurring Transparent Glass

Advances in technology, along with societal concerns about sustainability, shape contemporary glazing applications

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Forward-Thinking

Judd Foundation and MASS MoCA among grantees of $3 million in new funding from the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

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Sea Change

A beloved Puget Sound beach emerges from a $6.3 million redesign that brings resiliency to the forefront

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Electricity Plus Equity

A new substation in San Francisco by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and TEF Design powers a more hopeful future for Hunters Point

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History Made

The AIA heralds the Inflation Reduction Act, with its $369 billion in climate spending, as a “step in the right direction”

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