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Eco-Archi-Histories

Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism retrieves an inspiring, bygone era of the American architectural imagination

Leading By Example

Governor Hochul’s Buy Clean Concrete program seeks to reduce embodied carbon in New York state building projects

Outgrowing Portland

Cement production has an emissions problem. Here’s how companies are addressing it.

B Corps

More and more architecture firms are becoming certified B Corps: What are they, and what do they mean for architecture?

rendering of factory building
Ceramics Class

Duravit AG has plans to design the “world’s first climate-neutral” ceramic production facility in Québec

Giving Back

Noguchi Museum and Pratt Institute among 48 recipients of a $2.7 million grant from the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

Thought Leaders

California becomes the first state in the U.S. to tackle embodied carbon in its building codes

New seating at Boston City Hall
Learning from the Commonwealth

Fossil fuel bans, a green bank, and energy codes prohibiting all-glass buildings are coming to Massachusetts

An incandescent lightbulb.
Light Switch

Biden administration and EU Commission ban incandescent bulbs to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

Sweat Inducing

Heat Wave digest: An awful week of weather, incentivizing retrofits, painting roadways, and more

Oxford Circus

Michael Gove shuts down Marks & Spencer’s Marble Arch demolition plans over carbon catastrophe

Trash Talk

Refuse//Repose, an exhibition at Kent State University, showcases architectural waste

Trash to Treasure

SFMOMA’s Scrappy Chair Challenge breathes new life into museum waste

Dancing on the Table

A ten-story, mass timber tower by LEVER Architecture underwent a shake test to investigate its seismic resiliency

Gold Among Green

A visit to a park pavilion in the Netherlands designed by Monadnock and De Zwarte Hond renews questions about sustainability

A New Order

For rE-ordering architecture, four researchers establish new column styles with 3D-printed clay

Practice Time

Climate as Praxis, the first event of CCA’s Gensler Center, offered an afternoon of exchange about the realities of architectural work

Industry Leader

The Urban Land Institute appoints Diane Hoskins, co-CEO of Gensler, as its new global chair

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