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Building Better

Op-ed: Strategies to reduce embodied carbon in the built environment

Looking out across the water from the living room
Industrial Proof

The Five Twelve House take its cues from nearby port structures

The sprawling averne east housing complex, with solar panels on top of buildings
Rockaway Resiliency

New York’s Rockaway Peninsula will be home to the city’s first net-zero development

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Project Future

MoMA curator Martino Stierli wants to “destabilize” the Western canon

new york city, prior to the gas ban
De Blasio Goes Electric

New York officially bans gas hookups, new buildings will need to go electric

The coney island boardwalk with wonder wheel behind it
Nth Time's The Charm

The Coney Island Boardwalk will be replaced by plastic and concrete

aerial view of a building enveloped by trees with a lake in the distance, the MAC Lodge at the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Minnesota
Petal to the Medal

HGA’s overhaul at Minnesota’s Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center is the first renovated Living Building

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When the Name Fits

Climate Pledge Arena debuts in Seattle as the world’s first net-zero-carbon arena

exterior of a hybrid mass timber museum building overlooking a lake
Can You Dig It?

Ennead breaks ground on a sprawling mass timber museum for a New Jersey fossil park

A sign for a green building rating, LEED and local, next to each toher
BEER Goggles And MisLEEDing Readings

New York’s proliferation of green building rating systems raises the question of what’s being measured

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Sea Change

The Miller Hull Partnership transforms a mid-century Puget Sound home into a deep green ideal

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1964–2021

Lance Hosey, architect and sustainable design advocate, has died at 56

A tower lit up for the 2020 tokyo olympics
Greenwashing The Games

How sustainable really were the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?

An aerial rendering of the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing.
Cougar Crossing

World’s largest wildlife crossing seeks funding for November groundbreaking near Los Angeles

aerial view of development with two plant-clad towers
The Hanging Gardens of Beverly Hills

Foster + Partners’ sprawling One Beverly Hills development officially launches

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Green Embrace

Carson Chan appointed inaugural director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute at MoMA

The seagram building, a glass international-style skyscraper
Under Construction

Kiel Moe’s Unless breaks down the ecology of the Seagram Building

buildings flanking a small lake with mountains in the background
The Next Generation

The next major MoMA exhibition will showcase Chinese architects dedicated to environmental stewardship

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