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Mini Loft in Bermondsey by Studio 29 interior
🐼Architect Converts Victorian Factory Space Into Cozy Mini-Loft
Special educators tiny house interior
♑Spacious Tiny House is Home to Educator and 3 Dogs
Hutt House by Melbourne Design Studios exterior
꧙Beautiful Hütt House Blends Biophilia With Passivhaus
388 Barkly Townhouse style apartments by Breathe Architecture + DREAMER interior
☂These Sustainable 'Townhouse-Style' Apartments Are Designed With Families in Mind
Oyaki Farm by Tono Mirai Architects roof
💦Rammed Earth & Wood Embrace the Sky in This Modern Cafe
Saltviga House by Kolman Boye Architects exterior
Serene Seaside Retreat Is Built With Wood Scraps
BLOXS modular tiny home exterior
🍬BLOXS Is a Premium Modular Tiny Home Made With Cross-Laminated Timber
Casa Gialla by Gon Architects
꧋When Designing a Small Space, Keep These Principles in Mind
Macchia tiny house interior
🍨Elemental Self-Built Tiny House Breaks All the Design Rules
Fruit Box renovation by Nimtim Architects interior
♊Terrace House Reimagined As Flexible and Robust Family Home
Karper building renovation by He! Architects interior
ꦚWarehouse Converted Into Beautiful Residence With Natural, Low-Tech Materials
An outdoor balcony with potted plants and two people lounging and visiting
♛Former Single Family Home Converted Into Vibrant Co-Living Spaces
Cork House by Polysmiths interior
🍎Bright and Airy Cork House Is an Example of 'Beautiful Sustainability'
Bastion House
How to Understand the Scale of Embodied Carbon
The Black and White Building
ꦬLondon's 'Black and White' Building Is Complete—and It's a Knockout
Skinny glass towers on Billionaires' Row, New York City
ꦅWhat Really Matters in Multi-Story Design? A New Study Looks at It All
Pantheon
⛎Was Roman Concrete Especially Durable or Is Modern Concrete Exceptionally Crappy?
exterior of building
ཧThis Parisian Apartment Building Could Only Work With Single Stairs
Airport view
꧂Saudi Arabia Unveils Plan for the World's Largest Airport
Young pigs stand in a pen at a farm in China.
𝕴China's Vertical Pig Farms Have a Massive Carbon Impact
Book cover for "A House Needs to Breath ... Or Does It?"
ꩵ'A House Needs to Breathe... or Does It?' Is Essential Building Science Reading
What is home?
ཧWhat Is an Ideal Home? Survey Shows Priorities Are Changing
Passive house development area, Bahnstadt, Heidelberg, Germany
What Is a Passive House? Principles and Design
Rose Apartments from Street
𝕴Housing for Young Adults Brings Back the Classic California Courtyard
Great Brockerage Rear
Retrofit Is RIBA South West Building of the Year
British cavity wall with insulation
🧸What Is a Thermal Bypass? Another Thing for Builders to Worry About
Orsted Gardens exterior corridor
🎐A Guide to Creating a Sustainable Living Environment in Apartments
front facade of 79 King Street
🌜This Mass Timber Passivhaus Rental Building Is Perfect for Active Adults
Sid Lee Interior
🦩Sid Lee Architecture's 'Biosquare' Is a Biophilic Renovation of a 60-Year-Old Office Building
Westonbirt Shelter
🌃This Pringle-Shaped Shelter Is a Great Example of 'Design Efficiency'
my favorite building in Vienna
An Architect's Guide to Building Better Housing
Nokken in a field
ꩲNokken Isn't a Tiny House, It's a Business in a Box
looking out from living room
🅰Are Wood Stoves and Big Windows Still the Stuff That Dreams Are Made of?
Potting Shed in Allotment Garden
The 2022 'Shed of the Year' Is a House of Doors
modular house plans
🍷This Modular House From the '60s Is Still an Inspiration
Pretty Good House book cover
🐬'Pretty Good House: A Guide To Creating Better Homes' Is a Pretty Good Book
Front Facade
ౠToronto Residential Building Is Our New Poster Child for Sustainable Design
Oasis Towers from distance
MVRDV Designs a Green Haven Among Skyscrapers
parking structure converted to office
💫The Greenest Building Is Flexible, Adaptable, and Universal
Texas Children's Hospital Interior
𒈔The Hospital of the Future Will Be Grown, Not Built
World of Volvo
🅘Sweden's World of Volvo Timber Building Celebrates the Right to Roam
Insulating an existing building with rock wool
🎶Adaptive Reuse Is the Architectural Challenge of the Present—Not the Future
Degrowth
🎉This Anonymous Manifesto Outlines How Architects Can Design for Degrowth
Top of buiding
🐼Brazil's Skinny Residential Tower Can Be a Model for Marvelous North American Housing
CABNs on dunes
♈These Prefab Cabins Are a Conscious Consumer's Dream
100 Liverpool Street
🐈Stirling Prize Short List Raises the Question: What Is Climate-Responsible Design?
The End of THE LINE
🃏The Linear City Is Reborn With Saudi Arabia's Plans for a 106-Mile Mirrored City
Smith entry
🧸Impact's 2022 Micro Housing Competition Spotlights Innovative Ideas
A passivhaus design in the Mediterranean
Why We Need Passivhaus in Hot Climates
Book cover of 'Build Beyond Zero'
꧒'Build Beyond Zero' Changes the Way One Thinks About Buildings
Blue modular home surrounded by trees and a lawn
How Sustainable Is Modular Construction?
Low angle composite image of trees on buildings in city against sky
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚHow to Measure Embodied Energy in Building Materials
Micro apartment with bed, kitchen, and sofa in one room
🐼What Are Micro-Apartments? Environmental Pros and Cons
Monument and courthouse in Brockville, Ontario
ꩵThe Preservation of Existing Buildings Is Climate Action
KATG from exterior
♓This Bus Barn Spotlights Why Even Utilitarian Infrastructure Should Be Beautiful
Factory in forest among trees
🐼Bjarke Ingels Group Discovers Simplicity In a Forest
COBOD 3D printer
Belinda Carr Debunks the 3D-Printed Home Fallacy
Electric Arc Furnace
Cambridge Engineers Develop Zero Carbon Cement
ไWood-Clad ARK Shelter Is a Minimalist Prefab That Opens Up