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8 Canada Square, a Norman Foster-designed office building that’s currently the global headquarters of HSBC Holdings, will have large sections of its façade removed to create landscaped terraces. The project, designed by KPF, will be the world’s largest transformation of an office tower into a sustainable mixed-use building.
The Contra Costa County Administration Building in Martinez, Calif., is the world’s first public project to achieve the zero-waste-focused TRUE Gold certification for construction. The TRUE Certification for Construction program, administered by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), recognizes projects that achieve exceptional levels of waste reduction, reuse, and recycling.
Artificial intelligence could help U.S. buildings to significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, according to a paper by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Demolished in 1989, The Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory left a five-acre hole in West Oakland, Calif. After sitting vacant for nearly three decades, the site will soon become utilized again in the form of 316 affordable housing units.
Over 100 wellness features are incorporated into CBRE’s Vancouver office.
The sustainable structure will be a mixed-use development with a hotel, apartments, and office space.
Kengo Kuma is designing the hotel, which will feature a large garden and a plant-covered façade.
The project’s net-zero goals led to the development of a new curtain wall system.
The hotel will feature a cold bath and be in a good location for viewing the northern lights.
The SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus in Bethlehem, Pa., receives the gold medal and $50,000.
Since its development in the 1990s, the LEED rating system has been applied to over 19.1 billion total commercial square feet.
Building efficiency essential to tempering global climate change.
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture wants to create a school powered by the River Thames.
A 600-meter treetop path culminates with a 45-meter-tall spiraling observation deck.
