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World Trade Center by 51N4E in Belgium
How Not to Not Demolish?

In Brussels, 51N4E adds to fraught World Trade Center site with a nearly new structure that reuses existing foundations and vertical cores

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Big Ideas for the Big O

A design competition explores potential uses for reclaimed materials from the roof of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium

fungus bricks
Mycotecture

NASA is prototyping fungal mycelium bricks to “grow homes” on the Moon and Mars

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Raw Earth Revolution

Why a sustainable material changing the game in Europe hasn’t landed in the U.S. market

rendering of building made with Re-Assembly’s recycled IGU
New Life for IGUs

Re-Assembly works to recycle a notoriously wasteful facade component

exterior of Cross Cabin house
Material Manifesto

Greg Esparza pushes the ecological envelope with Cross Cabin in Austin

Gensler materials library in New York office
Market Signal

Gensler’s Product Sustainability (GPS) Standards are a step toward a more circular economy and less carbon-intensive industry

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Now or Never

Earth Day Digest: Stories keeping AN editors hopeful about the planet’s future

Get That Money

Biden administration offers $250 million in grants to study embodied energy in construction materials; applications are due January 16

Beyond Sustainability

We can’t engineer our way out of the climate crisis

Straw, Wood, and Stone

How to Build a Low-Carbon Home is an accessible and instructive guide for home-building during the climate emergency

Thinking Through LCAs

Decarbonization consultant William Beer shares his thoughts about efforts to reduce emissions from the manufacture of building materials

Looking Back to Move Forward

Each chapter of Material Health: Design Frontiers interrogates a material of everyday production

Garden Party

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

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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Green Dreams

Biogenic House Sections, curated by LTL Architects, explores case studies and speculative designs that use natural materials

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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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