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Sometimes architecture is about much more than the materials and design of a building. This is the case for Pabellón Centro de Cultura Ambiental (CCA), a facility with the goal of increasing society's environmental awareness....

With climate change ramping up and an El Nino weather pattern in effect for the western hemisphere, heat island effect has become a real problem for cities sweltering under the summer sun...

Everyone knows that nature has an amazing healing power. All you have to do is take a walk and look at a tree on a pretty day and you can feel the majesty of nature. But it is an ugly truth that even the outdoor world is...

CityAge Media is hosting an event May 25 in person called Shaping the Next Los Angeles. The focus is forging partnerships and investments that can inform the future of other American towns and cities and set an example for...

By upcycling old newspaper racks, Impact Racks is changing the world one metal box at a time.[...]

When I visited the SCP hotel in Redmond, Oregon a couple of weeks before Christmas, I heard there was going to be a performance of The Christmas Carol in the lobby at six...

CapitaMall Wangjing, a commercial shopping complex in Beijing's Wangjing region, received a full sustainable renovation thanks to CLOU Architects. They won a design competition and collaborated with CapitaLand to renovate...

Twenty million people swarm Venice, Italy, annually, ruining the city’s culture and polluting the air. In Bali, the power infrastructure and waste management system can’t keep up with visitors. All around the world, the...

TAS and SvN Architects + Planners (SvN) released designs for a project called Connecting Cooksville, a Mississauga development that will connect the surrounding city with a mixed-use community...

Music House by Colectivo C733 brings culturally important music and festivities to Nacajuca´s, Mexico daily life. Through the Mesoamerican-rooted "pocho" dance and contemporary programming, this new sustainable building...

For many centuries, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands was protected by a defensive wall and canal. But over time, the wall began to crumble. The area was then converted into a park that wrapped around the city center....

Babcock Ranch, a community in southwest Florida, is America's first weather-resilient settlement that is fully powered by solar. The community has a lot to celebrate. It is the first settlement built with climate change threats...

URB, an urban design firm based in the United Arab Emirates, has recently unveiled its designs for a 1,600-hectare sustainable city in Southern Kuwait...

Chicago-based studio Wheeler Kearns Architects designed the Go Green Community Fresh Market in Englewood. It is the first phase of a masterplan driven by the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN). It is in collaboration...

In efforts to find solutions to world power problems, students at the America University in Cairo have developed glow-in-the-dark concrete as part of their graduation project...