It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.

The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

Stairs are coming out of the closet and becoming the major architectural element, helping keep people active and healthy.

Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

They do this so well in Montreal.

Green roofs, living walls, vertical farms are all part of a new living architecture.

Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

More proof that some things never change.

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

Architects are often late bloomers. Frank Gehry is in his prime at 79; Ralph Rapson died at his drafting board last year at 93.

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

Don't just sit there, do something.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.

It's all about the amazing connections.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to.

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

Forget about wood construction; cardboard could be the Next Big Thing.

This company creates modern, energy-efficient versions of the backyard 'granny flat'.

Joao Filgueiras Lima, known as Lele, has a remarkable portfolio which has begun to raise attention. We take a look at his pedestrianization work in Salvador and his approach to futuristic health centers.

And they figure out where to put it, because "future architecture means city-hacking."

Starting in September, I embark on a nationwide book tour for my new book entitled Urban Green: Architecture for the Future. The tour will take me to more than 20 universities and colleges across

Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian?

What happens when nobody wants to get on an elevator?

The Cultural Landscape Foundation introduces a prize that rivals architecture's Pritzker or Stirling.

Henning Larsen's design for Fælledby is "a model for sustainable living."

They will also likely offer a new definition of 'sustainable design'.

Sustainability matters, but so does hypocrisy.