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, ...

The idea of a Living Building, a high-performance building that produces its own power and cleans and reuses all of its water, is gaining momentum around the world. In an effort to oversee the global ...

This PAE Living Building is a dynamic structure designed and built with the goal of not just doing less harm to the environment but making a positive contribution to it. Designed and engineered to ...

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Designed to withstand severe earthquakes and to last for as long as 500 years, the PAE Living Building, by ZGF Architects, is an impressive example of resilient sustainable design. The office building ...

Visitors at the Canada Pavilion in the Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition are walking past a building that's alive — and it could someday help people breathe cleaner air while cutting the climate ...

The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International ...

Living buildings, quantum computers, safety by design, home robots and AI-assisted pandemic preparedness. Europe’s researchers are reshaping how we live, work and design our cities in 2026. By Anthony ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Designers of a new commercial building in downtown Portland have built what's called a 'living building,' meaning everything about it is 100% sustainable. Located at the corner of ...

Construction is underway for the first “living building” in Arizona, which will serve as an office for the building’s architecture and design firm, Architectural Resource Team. The building, called ...

Tubular Buildings are growing in usage as garages with living quarter or Barndominiums, or “barndos”. These buildings are hybrid metal structures that combine living quarters with a shop, barn, or ...