Eco Building
Architecture and design projects that prioritize environmental sustainability, renewable materials, and ecological impact reduction.
David Saik Studio Turns a 1940s Venice Sewing Factory into a Zero-Energy House for Emeco
In Venice, Los Angeles, a former sewing shop becomes Emeco's solar-powered gallery and guesthouse, organized around a cactus growing through a light well.
CnB Sustainable Market: A Timber Frame That Turns Shopping into Reducing, Reusing and Recycling
An open grid of timber modules, trellised cores and workshop rooms recasts the public market as a place to repair, swap and grow, not just to buy.
Earthen Oasis: Mortarless Earth Blocks Stack a Shared Garden Into Accra Housing
Kente-patterned columns, interlocking earth walls and fish-filled pools turn an Accra housing block into a farm, a commons and a green refuge.
Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth
Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.
Building Bureau Builds a Rammed Earth Ecolodge in Nepal's Tiger Country to Fund Anti-Poaching Work
Outside Bardiya National Park, stabilized rammed earth and salvaged Tharu roof tiles turn a five-room lodge into a conservation hub for the Terai.
Estúdio Minke Strips a 1940s Higienópolis Apartment Back to Its Concrete Bones and Plants It Like a Village House
In São Paulo's Higienópolis, a 113 m² renovation trades a compartmentalized 1940s plan for one open room of concrete, reclaimed brick and greenery.
gaSSz arquitectos Builds a Demountable Circular-Economy Garden from Rubble and Tires in Madrid's Vicálvaro
In Vicálvaro, Madrid, a 2,400 m² garden of bolted yellow steel, rubble gabions and tire-rubber paving treats public space as a reversible material bank.
Atempo Arquitectura Turns a Cuenca Family House into a Multi-Unit Residence Crowned in Brick Lattice
In Cuenca, Ecuador, a 415 m² family home becomes a residential complex where scrolled ironwork, terracotta lattice and a skylit stair keep memory alive.
Polysmiths Wraps a Backland Infill House in East London with Cork Walls, Inside and Out
In Forest Gate, Newham, a three-bedroom infill home pulls cork out of the wall cavity and makes it the finish, shaped by pandemic material shortages.
Atempo Arquitectura Renovates and Expands a House in Cuenca's Historic Center Around a Rooftop Terrace
In Cuenca, Ecuador, the Martha Beatriz House keeps an existing residence and stacks terraces, terracotta and timber on top of it to claim the skyline.
Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos Sets Two Eucalyptus Glulam Pavilions on a Concrete Base for a Family Home in Atibaia
On a sloping lot in Atibaia, Brazil, a social and a private glulam pavilion meet at a stone courtyard, built for year-round life with four children.
Cube Design Draws an Ecological Corridor Between Two Shenzhen Hills with the Nankai Building
Beside Shenzhen's container docks, the Nankai Building pairs stacked balconies with a climbing green screen to connect two hillsides across its height.
