Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

There’s a national housing shortage, both market rate and affordable housing. At the same time there’s a large supply of empty office space and underutilized—and closed—hotels across the country.

The US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition that for more than two decades has challenged more than 25,000 students to create efficient, affordable buildings ...

The RH store on Newbury Street in Boston. Bergmeyer's redesign preserved historical elements of the Civil War era building while marrying it with the retailer’s brand identity and at the same time ...

Design teams are not short on tools; they’re short on continuity. Project data is still too often fragmented across files, and decisions loose context as work moves from planning to design to ...

The world has just witnessed the hottest months in recorded history, and the outlook is far from optimistic. Rising temperatures are driving greater cooling demands, threatening to trigger a vicious ...

Our buildings become symbolic of the times we live in, reflecting the spirit of a given era, attending to different needs, lifestyles and functions. “Architecture should speak of its time and place, ...