“I started the night of the event,” architect and designer May Sung says of her community rebuilding efforts needed as a result of the Palisades fire. “I was getting texts from all my clients, neighbors and friends.” Would my home survive? (Comparatively few did.) Do I have time to get out?
Fire survivors who lost everything in the January fire are coming together to support their own as they work to rebuild and recover. Several community organizers from Team Palisades and beyond will speak this Saturday at the WestEdge design fair.
The art at the annual exhibition and the worries it addresses
The designers who participated in the 19th Biennale d’Architettura di Venezia all began with the same environmental anxiety—what the critic Ian Volner called a, “searching, no-bad-ideas rap session on the human prospect”—and concluded with vastly different forms of community-mindedness, ethical decarbonization and radical regeneration.
Visit the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) from now until February 28, 2026.
The September 29 event brings together green building organizations for a collaborative event that focuses on directing policy to create healthy buildings and healthier communities worldwide
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), in partnership with Georgetown University’s Global Cities Initiative, is proud to host its second annual Healthy Building Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 29.
Green Econome founder Marika Erdely reflects on the Palisades blaze and how fire hardening measures may have saved her home
January 7, 2025, started off like any other morning in my Malibu neighborhood. I woke up and took a deep look at the ocean view that I can luckily see from my bed and thanked the universe that I am as fortunate as I am to be able to live in this slice of paradise. I open my slider and let out my darling English Black Lab, Bear. She pounces out and I take a deeper breath.
The Italian designer infused his postmodern resin visions into the offices of the forward-thinking firm, and the world wasn't ready for it.
In 1994, Jay Chiat of advertising firm TBWA/Chiat/Day invited Gaetano Pesce to design the company’s New York City office. Pesce responded with one of the most controversial and radical workplace interiors ever built. His approach abandoned normal materials and corporate formalities in favor of colorful, sculptural environments. The space challenged not only aesthetic conventions, but also the very assumptions of how labor and work should be structured, contained, and lived. Play and personal expression were at the center of this space.
BuildingGreen Reports from the 2025 AIA Conference on Architecture
Most of the attendees at this year’s AIA Conference on Architecture (June 4-7) couldn’t believe their bad luck—it was 90 degrees in the shade. In June. In Boston.
They escaped cities like Atlanta, Phoenix and Tulsa, which averaged 89 degrees that week, so this was supposed to be a mild junket on the banks of the River Charles.
Now is your chance to comment on LEED version 5, a pivotal update and the first major change since 2013. We give you the highlights below.
By Nadav Malin and Paula Melton
It’s here. So what’s new?
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released LEED v5 for its first public comment period on April 3, 2024, giving us our first detailed look at the next generation of the program that has defined green building in North America and around the world for more than twenty years.
Through big transitions, BuildingGreen stays true to its mission.
The seeds of what is now BuildingGreen were planted nearly four decades ago, when Alex Wilson started the company in his home in Dummerston, Vermont. Alex and his wife, Jerelyn Wilson, created this company and have nurtured it ever since.
Our guests reply to the Qs we didn’t get to during our July 26 event. Plus, here’s the recording if you missed it, and USGBC will host several v5 update sessions at Greenbuild.
What a pleasure it was hosting Sarah Talkington (LEED Steering Committee chair) and Keith Amann (past chair of the LEED Advisory Committee, past member of the LEED Steering Committee) for our recent LEEDuser coffee talk, What’s up with LEED v5?
Mindful MATERIALS has partnered with BuildingGreen to expand knowledge of the Common Materials Framework across the building product manufacturing and AEC industries.
Mindful MATERIALS is partnering with BuildingGreen, a leader in green building knowledge, consulting, and communities, to broaden the building product manufacturing and AEC industries’ understanding of the Common Materials Framework (CMF). The CMF is a common language for sustainability data that will help databases and certification platforms speak to each other.
With a new procurement program, Google adopted comprehensive sustainability requirements for modular carpet tile that raise the bar for major manufacturers.
When it comes to sustainability, modular carpet is a surprisingly complicated product. It’s made with a range of different backings and face fibers and various other compounds that might be added as filler, surface treatments, antimicrobials, and more. Setting a bar that optimizes for climate, health, and circularity is challenging.
When it comes to sustainability, many smaller architecture firms are interested but still getting there.
We hear a lot about the sustainability commitments and plans of large architecture firms, but the reality is that the vast majority of firms—about 75% in 2019, according to research done by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)—are small (by their definition, “small” means ten or fewer employees)
The Marshall Fire brought tragedy to Boulder County at the end of 2021. Can something positive grow out of the ashes?
2021 was a year in a string of years of unprecedented weather-related events: mega tornados, record-shattering heat domes, and ever-expanding forest fires.
The endless availability of fresh, clean water is an illusion—and not just in drought-stricken places. Here are some ways in which building professionals can step up.
Seriously, what are we thinking? Lush golf courses, thirsty almond groves, and huge metropolises in the desert. More sprawling cities built on flood plains. And we wonder why water is dangerously scarce in some places and destructively abundant in others.
We are out of balance with natural water cycles, and we pay for it—billions of dollars per year—when wildfires and floods result.
