Green Architecture
Architecture and design that integrates natural systems, sustainable materials, and ecological restoration into built environments.
Living Hallow: Interwoven Futures: A Settlement That Grows Its Own Building Material
A Johannesburg proposal plants fibrous crops to heal its ground, then imagines homes, courtyards and public spaces built from what it harvests.
Grassroots: Lattice Domes and Gravel Yards Turn a Walled Indian Block into a Preschool
A shortlisted pre-education school proposal scatters timber-ribbed pods across an enclosed courtyard, letting play, planting and lessons share one ground.
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.
Soul Hug: A Vine-Wrapped Tower That Pushes Gardens Into Every Floor, Room and Window
A cylindrical residential tower in China carries planting from a ground-level park to sky gardens and bedrooms, chasing biophilia at every scale.
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.
KPF Wraps a Taiwanese Waste Recycling Plant in a Public Fern Garden, Exhibition Hall and Roof Terrace
In Xiulin Township, Eastern Taiwan, TCC's DAKA recycling center puts its waste pit on public view and layers learning spaces around the machinery.
Earthen Angularity: A Stepped Tower in Accra That Grows a Garden Through Its Core
Tapering floor plates on angled struts wrap a leaf-lined atrium, staging a meeting between vernacular ground and modern frame in Accra.
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.
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.
Breathing-scape: A Moss-Canopied Park in China That Treats Clean Air as a Shared Public Room
Winding trails, moon gates and arch bridges thread a park where tree-like moss canopies are proposed as filters for some of the world's most polluted air.
andblack design studio Wraps a Three-Generation Ahmedabad Home Around a Planted, Skylit Central Courtyard
In Ahmedabad, a 9,910 sq ft house uses exposed concrete, brick jali and a skylit green court to give three generations both distance and closeness.
CAW Arquitectos Stabilizes an Antofagasta Hillside with Planted Terraces and Slatted Timber Shade
In Antofagasta's Las Brisas sector, a 13,500 m² park uses vegetation, stone terraces and timber canopies as living infrastructure on unstable ground.
Overseas Oasis: A Sloped Green Roof That Lets the Park Climb Onto a Community Center
An Amsterdam community center pairs a walkable lawn roof with mesh-clad mobile rooms where students from abroad can meet local residents.
Atelier Meadow Inserts Red Stairs and Timber Volumes into a Young Chengdu Building to Create an Art Center
In Chengdu's Tianfu International Biotown, a 4,000 m² adaptive reuse treats a recently built frame as raw material for galleries, studios and a theatre.
caarpa Threads a Mint-Green Stair Between Two Reed-Roofed Glasshouses in a Private Genoa Garden
In a private garden in central Genoa, caarpa turns a modest level change into a stair, two reed-roofed glasshouses and a home for hens.
Protoplain Architects Rebuilds Four Forest Restrooms in Taichung with Taiwan-Grown Bamboo
In Taichung's Basianshan forest recreation area, four public toilets use domestic bamboo and four construction methods to give each its own character.
Aguirre Arquitetura Splits a Yoga Studio in Uberlândia into Steel Pavilions Threaded with Gardens
In Uberlândia, Brazil, Premavati Yoga Space breaks its program into steel blocks set between tropical gardens to recover a countryside calm in the city.
+K Architects Opens Up a São Paulo Building with Pivoting Glass for Greenpeace Brazil's Headquarters
In São Paulo, a retrofit swaps sealed glazing for pivoting panes, steel-and-glass rooms and vines, giving an environmental NGO an office that breathes.
taller paralelo and HRBT Raise a Glulam Greenhouse Roof over a Mexico City Community Orchard
A 36-metre timber and steel-cable canopy in Mexico City shelters fruit trees, exhibitions and a library under a translucent saw-tooth roof.
