World's highest efficiency rating achieved for CZTS thin-film solar cells.
Tokyo’s urban jungle is about to become a whole lot greener. Dutch firm ingenhoven architects unveiled designs for the Toranomon Project, a mixed-use development draped with greenery.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Brock Environmental Centeer, which operates on net zero energy and net zero water, is about to receive the world most prestigious accolade in sustainable building: a Living Building certification.
Backed by startup incubator Y Combinator, Acre Designs is poised to transform the house building industry with prefabricated, net zero energy homes that are affordable and sustainable.
Italian architects Paolo Venturella and Cosimo Scotucci designed a Global Cooling Skyscraper that would use wind power to cool the planet and battle global warming.
The campus of the future will undoubtedly incorporate sustainable design, and Erasmus University in Rotterdam wants to pave the way by leading through example.
Australia-based Austin Maynard Architects have recently completed a luxury home in Melbourne called That House. It's ultra modern and very sustainable, with a footprint of about half that of the surrounding houses. The home is also powered by solar energy, and features a rainwater collection system.
We've rounded up eight plus-energy homes that can produce more energy than they need, with some so powerful that they can even light up the house next door.
Designed to be a fully sustainable urban living complex, Urban Plant may be a model for green-based urban architecture of the future.
Sou Fujimoto Architects and Manal Rachdi OXO Architects have designed a green glass residential development in Paris.
“Southeast Asia’s largest green city” will also be a car-free zone. The first phase of Forest City, a mixed-use, sustainable development spanning 13.86 sq km in Iskandar Malaysia, was recently unveiled for public viewing to whet the appetite of regional investors.
‘IF YOU build it they will come.’ This is the thinking guiding one of China’s most ambitious projects — a plan to build a “smart” city for 500,000 people, from scratch, on four man-made islands in South-East Asia.
Media TIC integrates technology into its structure in a way unlike any other building. It is part of the very framework that the building is built on.
Over the past 20 years, green construction has gone from a niche enterprise to a major driver of new business. But in 2016, erecting sustainable, profitable green buildings will no longer be enough to stand out.
The 12 MW installation will be built across eight sheltered venues at a single premise at the R.S.S.B. Educational & Environmental Society in Amritsar, India.
