These buildings can come in any shape or size, so long as their design embodies more than just a greenwashed buzzword ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Perhaps the future of environmentally friendly architecture is the use of shipping container homes. That’s what Lakewood City School seventh-graders are learning all about taking the ...

Architect Shigeru Ban builds churches, houses and pavilions out of paper and bamboo. These are traditional materials of Japanese architecture, but they are anomalous in the modern world of concrete, ...

According to Live Kindly, sustainable architecture is “any architecture that attempts to limit the negative environmental impact of building construction and operation.” There are a few formal ...

The people who will design, plan and construct the future of Boston are brainstorming ideas that will eventually shape the look of the city. They came to Tufts Monday to begin ArchFest 2005, a six day ...

Thinking of building a new home? Why not save a few trees and opt to construct your dream house out of earth? What can be more natural than the soil we walk on? It's part of the current "green ...

The 2007 Paris Climate Action Plan set a goal of reducing the city’s environmental footprint by 75% by 2050 (using 2004 as the base year), including greenhouse-gas emissions, energy consumption, and a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The current financial downturn could spur demand for sustainably designed buildings and communities, the chairman of one of the world's largest green architecture firms said on ...

Cutting-edge designs tend to be made with cutting-edge materials and processes, but when it comes to the end product, novel doesn’t always correlate to eco-friendly. In many cases the last century’s ...