Designed to withstand severe earthquakes and to last for as long as 500 years, the PAE Living Building, by ZGF Architects, is an impressive example of resilient sustainable design. The office building ...

Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

This PAE Living Building is a dynamic structure designed and built with the goal of not just doing less harm to the environment but making a positive contribution to it. Designed and engineered to ...

The text of the Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification system reads more like a manifesto than a green building standard. The document asks project teams to “imagine a building designed and ...

What is the meaning of sustainability in architecture? What are the guiding principles of a design response that is at once ecologically holistic, socially just, and zero-carbon? Miller Hull has ...

Living buildings, quantum computers, safety by design, home robots and AI-assisted pandemic preparedness. Europe’s researchers are reshaping how we live, work and design our cities in 2026. By Anthony ...

Next week, Yale Divinity School will break ground on “The Living Village,” an unprecedented residence hall that will be the largest living-building residential complex on a university campus anywhere.

Humans have used bio-based materials for hundreds of thousands of years. These include materials such as timber and bamboo. They are eco-friendly, particularly compared to fossil-fuel products, since ...