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Passive HouseLatest Stories

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Schiller Projects breaks ground on 25 homes using local materials in Asheville, North Carolina

2022 Sustainability Symposium

aerial view of the Clayton Community Centre flanked by woodlands
All Buttoned-Up

This Canadian community hub is North America’s largest non-residential Passive House

An aerial photo of sendero verde, an affordable housing block under construction in brick
Big Passive

At Sendero Verde, Handel Architects brings Passive House design to high-rise affordable housing

aerial shot of the oval shaped thatched roof and surrounding two smaller buildings
Facade that Cools

The passive house Fass School employs local materials for an active facade

Winthrop center, a massive tower on a base in boston
Getting A Handel

In Boston, the world’s largest Passive House office tower is on the rise

The front of the basket-like 1766 Frances Street, showing people at the ground level
There's Always A Bigger Basket

Vancouver’s basket-shaped social housing for First Nations residents sails to approval

Passively Prefabbed

Plant Prefab rolls out Passive House-certified modular homes

An ontario public housing development in black and white, part of the tower Renewal Partnership
Raising Expectations

The Tower Renewal Partnership retrofits Southern Ontario’s concrete high-rises for a sustainable and affordable future

Exterior rendering of a basket-themed building for First Nations peoples
Long Live The Big Basket!

Basket-inspired, passive social housing could be coming to Vancouver

Looking towards an open-plan kitchen
Passive, but not “Passive”

Wayne Turett’s Greenport Passive House blends North Fork-chic with modern technology

Rendering of an undulating, copper-clad tower in Vancouver, which would be built to passive house standards
Lean, Clean, and Green

World’s tallest passive house tower could rise in Vancouver’s West End

A two-story passive house clad in timber on North Fork
Getting Passive

Wayne Turett erects his own Passive House on Long Island’s North Fork

Passive Progressive

Harvard’s HouseZero is a live-in lab for sustainable renovation

Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gesturing in front of building to a crowd
House of AOC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helps launch green affordable housing complex in Queens

a digital rendering of a multiple building and an outdoor garden
Passive progressive

New passive ‘house’ guide includes high rises and projects by Handel and FXCollaborative

Back to School

Cornell Tech campus opens with three high-tech buildings

AN's Facades+ Conference

AEC professionals behind Cornell Tech Passive House reveal key to high energy performance

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