The largest net zero plus commercial building retrofit in the US officially opened a few days ago in Los Angeles.
The Portuguese design firm developed the beautiful self-sufficient home, which was created with a focus on energy efficiency and environmentally friendly materials.
Architecture firm EZAR and architect Juan Blazquez designed the CSI-IDEA Building in Malaga, Spain as a standard for net zero energy architecture.
Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities' carbon emissions.
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.
Designed to be a fully sustainable urban living complex, Urban Plant may be a model for green-based urban architecture of the future.
The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City - the world's largest eco-city - is not a green, carbon-free paradise where cars are banned from the streets.
If this doesn't sound like a dream come true, I don't know what does. The German government is testing a new design for a low-energy home packed with renewable energy generation systems, dubbed the...
Preston at Jetson Green rounds up all the houses I missed this year
We have to build our homes and buildings in a way that we can maintain them in the face of changing conditions, economic and climactic.
