
Winning design for Museum of Architecture and Urbanism announced
A recent competition sponsored by the National Agency for Administrative City Construction aimed to find a comprehensive...

Bradley Plaza Green Alley: a new park for an old LA neighborhood
As the need for safe outdoor space is more pressing than ever, the Bradley Plaza Green Alley project has opened...

Giant bamboo arches shield Haduwa Arts & Culture Institute from the sun
Along the Atlantic coast of Ghana’s Central Region in Apam, Vienna-based, trans-disciplinary lab [applied] Foreign...

Inspiring mud-and-bamboo Anandaloy Building uplifts a Bangladeshi community
German architecture practice Studio Anna Heringer has received the international architecture prize OBEL AWARD...

Fram Museum extension is dedicated to environmental education
Norway- and Denmark-based architecture firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has won an invited competition for the new...

MVRDV unveils sustainable Chengdu Sky Valley masterplan
MVRDV has revealed designs for Chengdu Sky Valley, a competition entry for the Future Science and Technology City,...

Zero-emission airport concept wins 2020 Fentress Global Challenge
From over 100 student design submissions in more than 15 countries, the Fentress Global Challenge has selected...

Brussels train station transformed into wooden shopping and event center
The Gare Maritime railway station in Brussels has seen a huge transformation. The building, formerly one of Europe's...

This nature center proves zero-energy is possible even in wintry Minnesota
Environmental stewardship comes alive in spectacular fashion at the new Westwood Hills Nature Center, an interpretative...

Architects envision a lush, solar-powered oasis to cool Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) has named European architecture firm Mask Architects’...

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures achieves LEED Gold certification
The nation’s first large-scale museum devoted entirely to filmmaking has earned LEED Gold certification months...

How a green-roofed shopping center is redefining 'reuse'
Now that eco-friendly building and reuse projects are on the rise, there have been some pretty amazing transformations....

Hauser & Wirth gallery, where adaptive reuse and art thrive
New York's West Chelsea neighborhood has a distinct character that residents have worked to preserve over the years....

The Night Ministry building is a stunning showcase of adaptive reuse
The new headquarters for Chicago's The Night Ministry is a three-story adaptive reuse project that truly showcases...

Beautiful Washington bridge with lace-like metal walls shimmers at night
When Seattle-based LMN Architects and KPFF Consulting Engineers were tapped to design the Grand Avenue Park Bridge...

Montana Heritage Center renovation will celebrate the state’s history and geology
A multimillion dollar expansion and renovation project is underway in Helena, Montana for the Montana Historical...

Energy-neutral House of Eemnes is a sustainable “culture house”
Thirty minutes east of Amsterdam, the municipality of Eemnes has recently welcomed a beautiful community center...

100-year-old Buda Mill & Grain Co. has new life as a community gathering spot
Often, culture and community are so intertwined that one defines the other, as is the case with a rural town in...

Green-roofed theater in Shenzhen raises the bar for civic architecture
When the Pingshan District government in Shenzhen, China tapped Beijing-based OPEN Architecture to design the district’s...

An award-winning forest tops the world’s first publicly accessible art depot
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the first publicly accessible art depot in the world, has just completed construction...

Architects want to turn the Tiber River banks into a thriving piazza
In its ongoing efforts to introduce imaginative public spaces into cities, New York-based Ballman Khapalova has...

Tartu turns a major street into a car-free haven for a month
For the entire month of July, the Estonian city of Tartu transformed one of its main streets in the heart of the...

Midcentury warehouse becomes a community-building asset in Mexico City
In a bid to sustainably create more inclusive and connective space in Mexico City, local architecture practice...

BiodiverCity will transform Penang South Islands into an eco-tourism spot
In January 2020, the Penang State Government launched an international design competition centered on reinventing...

Third Nature imagines a zero-emission regenerative city district in Bergen
An old logistics port and ferry terminal in Bergen, Norway has been reimagined into an inspiring zero-emission...

Abu Dhabi Flamingo Visitor Center blends into the landscape
Prague-based architecture firm Petr Janda / brainwork studio has won an international competition with its design...

New Tokyo Toilet Project designs public restrooms to foster inclusivity
Japan-based Nippon Foundation has launched its Tokyo Toilet Project to design and build new, inclusive public toilets...

A small Swedish town becomes home to urban development experiments
Stockholm-based architecture firm Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled designs for the Tibro Train Tracks,...

A charming timber train station highlights nature and play in China
In the outskirts of Jiaxing, China, a nature reserve has been transformed into a multipurpose recreational zone...

A green roof naturally cools a bioclimatic mosque in Indonesia
Jakarta-based architecture firm RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture) has recently completed the Bioclimatic...