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Now or Never

Earth Day Digest: Stories keeping AN editors hopeful about the planet’s future

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Real Alpha

The International Mass Timber Conference promotes community through design, manufacturing, and a shared love of craft

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Urbanist’s Checklist

In Houston, BIG and Skanska promote sustainability with new tower 1550 on the Green

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Electric Avenue

KPF and Atelier Ten unveil New York’s first purpose-built, all-electric lab building at Columbia University

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It Takes a Village

The Phoenix by Human Nature could become the U.K.’s most sustainable neighborhood

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“Green Collar”

Object Territories among six winning teams named by Trust for Governors Island to design Climate Solutions Challenge pilot projects

Crystal Clear

Architects, engineers, and contractors support a nationwide definition of what constitutes a zero-emissions building

It Takes a Village

World Monuments Fund awards $15 million for climate heritage solutions in Nepal, Peru, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere

Fueling Debate

At COP28 conversations on the phasing out of oil felt paradoxical amidst the Dubai backdrop

A Scorcher

It’s official, 2023 was the hottest year recorded since 1850

Prefab Collab

Olson Kundig debuts a net-zero, single-family prototype in the Bay Area

Toward a Circular Economy

San Antonio’s Material Innovation Center is one of ten J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardees

Made in America

SOM, Clayco, and Jacobs team up to design an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Georgia

Get That Money

Biden administration offers $250 million in grants to study embodied energy in construction materials; applications are due January 16

All Along the Watchtower

Seattle City Council passes the most progressive legislation in its history to reduce building emissions

Bullet Train

These Brightline West stations by Grimshaw Architects could revolutionize transit between L.A. and Las Vegas

Pine Tree State Poetry

At Bowdoin College, HGA completes the first commercially scaled mass timber buildings in Maine

What’s Next?

AN checks in with Leers Weinzapfel Associates for updates on its mass timber projects

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