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Raw Earth Revolution

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

BIG Spiral
Back in the Big Apple

Facades+ returns to New York City on April 4 and 5

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Manhattan Groundscraper

COOKFOX and Gensler design Google’s new workspace in St. John’s Terminal to be authentically New York

Get That Money

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

Virtual Summit

Renew Reuse Regrow, presented by The Architect’s Newspaper, returns on December 6

Metal Man

AN talks with Bill Zahner about metal, family-owned businesses, and sustainability

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

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.

West Coast Tech

TECH+ made its return to L.A. with a dive into technological forecasting

London Calling

In London, M&S files High Court appeal against State of Secretary Gove’s Marble Arch refusal

Thought Leaders

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

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Learning from the Commonwealth

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

Oxford Circus

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

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Thinking Through Material Flows

Rather than a primary focus on energy efficiency, architects should consider more holistic assessments to reduce the carbon emissions of construction

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