Architecture and design education must change to put the industry on a more sustainable course, writes Trimble SketchUp's Sumele Adelana as part of Dezeen's Climate Salon partnership with the software ...

Product designers and engineers can help to significantly reduce the environmental impact of products by making sure that they change the way they design new products, by taking into account the ...

The future of the world looks, at the moment, to be rather pessimistic, but there are plenty of designers and thinkers out there who are trying to make life greener and more sustainable — often ...

Many architects and designers were caught dead in their tracks when the recent economic downturn struck. Standard architecture in Los Angeles successfully powers through by taking sustainable action, ...

Architects identify “sustainability” as the most important change in the future of their profession. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning is a practical, comprehensive guide to ...

With growing concerns about the construction industry's contribution to climate change, sustainable design is more important than ever. As the year comes to a close, we toast the best, most ...

The tǝmǝsew’txw Aquatic and Community Centre is the rare all-electric aquatics center that boasts Canada’s Green Building ...

Preserved as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the quiet Japanese villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayamaare a beautiful example of the gasshō-zukuri, or “prayer-hands construction,” historic building design ...

Produce, use, reuse – by 2025, we want to design and develop 100 percent of Henkel's packaging so that it can be reused or recycled as completely as possible. 1 This is because we want to continuously ...

Ten projects have been named the top examples of sustainable and ecological design by the AIA and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) for the year 2015. Now in its 19th edition, the COTE Top Ten ...

It is hard, writing about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater on a website devoted to sustainable design and living. It is possibly one of the most unsustainable buildings ever constructed, needing ...