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Garden Party

Testbeds recycles mock-ups once treated as construction waste into investments in public space

Progress and Possibility

The International Mass Timber Conference brought together architects, contractors, fabricators, and foresters

Enmeshed Environments

What is the spatial order of our fossil fuel age? Confronting Carbon Form attempts an answer

Funded By Art

Climate as Praxis symposium will be the inaugural event for CCA’s M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design

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Carbon Positive?!

A claim about Populus, a hotel under construction in Denver, deserves close scrutiny

Home Grown

A new set of manufacturers is producing carbon-storing, plant-based building materials sourced from the farms, forests, and factories of rural America

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Building for a Post-Carbon Future

In Material Reform, Material Cultures rethinks the cultures, systems, and infrastructures of how we make architecture

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Let There Be Shade

New French law requires most large parking lots to be blanketed with solar canopies

Arboreal Assist

At COP27, SOM unveils Urban Sequoia NOW, a “readily constructable,” carbon-absorbing tower

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Rikers Rebirth

Regional Plan Association and RISD reimagine NYC’s notorious Rikers Island as a green energy hub

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First of its Kind

LMN Architects completes University of Washington’s first mass timber building

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Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Mass Timber

The latest edition of AN’s TimberCon focused on sustainability while exploring the material’s design and engineering capabilities

And It’s Off!

SCAPE’s Town Branch Commons greenway opens in downtown Lexington, Kentucky

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The Coal War

Shuttered coalfield development in West Virginia will be transformed into renewable energy enterprise

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Top of its Class

Lake|Flato Architects designs a mass timber structure for Trinity University in San Antonio

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Ahead of the Game

Material Bank signs on to The Climate Pledge, committing to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040

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Upward, with Form and Policy

IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs

Putting Things Right

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation reaches $20.5 million settlement with homeowners in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

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