The built environment is at much as risk as the natural environment.
The ultimate goal of green building? How about automation?
How cities will adapt to the emergent threats of climate change—extreme storms, flooding, and rising sea levels.
What's the best way to photograph a green building?
Construction has been called a “dynamically conservative industry”—it works hard to stay in the same place. Nowhere is this more evident than in the basic module of both residential and commercial building: the stud wall.
Green building strategies often seem complicated and confusing, but really they fall into two simple categories: those that affect visible design and those that do not.
Advocates of the environment claim that designing a building that looks good but wastes resources is like putting lipstick on a pig—an argument that seems to be winning as green becomes more mainstream.