Sustainable Architecture
Architecture and design practices that prioritize environmental responsibility, resource efficiency, and long-term ecological impact.
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.
Symbiosis: A Hong Kong Tower That Hangs a Rainforest Between Its Three Wings
Three concrete housing arms meet at one core, and the scalloped terraces between them carry soil, stone and subtropical planting up the full height of the
Developing Resilience through architecture in the Anthropocene -The case of Gorai Koliwada
This thesis investigates equity as an architectural framework for addressing unequal access to space, infrastructure, resources and opportunities within Gorai Koliwada. The project questions who architecture serves, who remains excluded and how spatial interventions can redistribute access without displacing existing communities.
The Sub-MarinaTube: A Plastic-Recycling City Beneath the Pacific Garbage Patch
Vertical towers and horizontal tubes organize an underwater settlement that combines habitation, marine research, and ocean waste recovery.
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.
Earth Made: A Rammed Earth Courtyard Housing Scheme Built Around a Stepped Water Kund
Three earthen bars frame a sunken, terraced pool in Gwalior, proposing that the oldest building material can still organise shared urban life.
SAOTA Folds a Planted, Branching Roof over a Hillside House in the Los Angeles Bird Streets
Above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Helix Residence lets a sculpted, planted roof act as facade, landscape and privacy screen over a hillside site.
The Ocean Hive: A Honeycomb Colony That Grows Unit by Unit Across a Drowned Pacific
An Editor's Choice entry that starts with 20 hexagonal units and expands into floating neighbourhoods arranged around a shared central square at sea.
Becoming Aligned With All: A Rammed Earth Campus in Sri Lanka That Rises From the Ground and Falls Back
Two white concrete shells lift off a riverside site and land again, framing a pooled courtyard, rammed earth walls and rooms that can be reshuffled.
Vari Architects Turns an Abandoned Show-Villa Island in Chengdu into a Lakeside Retail Village
On Luxe Lakes in Chengdu, a field of abandoned show villas becomes a loose cluster of shops, terraces and gray spaces that soften into the landscape.
Austin Sandy Architects Builds an Open Timber Pavilion for Community Life on a Petaluma Organic Farm
A 1,200 sq ft timber pavilion in Petaluma, California, gives a certified organic farm one deep roof for dinners, festivals, classes and daily work.
Ghiya: Reinterpreting Cairo's Informal Skyline Through Brick, Recycled Wood, and Local Identity
A winning proposal that treats Manshiyat Naser's unfinished rooftops and exposed brickwork not as problems to solve but as an architectural language to ext
LAOS Wraps a Barcelona Social Center Extension in Climbing Vines and Stacks It Around a Skylit Brick Atrium
In Barcelona's Sants district, a 1,000 m² neighbourhood hub gathers offices and meeting rooms around a planted atrium and faces a schoolyard in green.
Robust Architecture Workshop Crowns a Worn-Out Kandy House with a Red Gabled Roof Instead of Demolishing It
In suburban Kandy, Sri Lanka, Primrose House keeps a tired two-bedroom dwelling and layers steel, brick, ponds and pink doors onto it for a second life.
New Wave: Rethinking Barcelona's Eixample Grid as a Living Urban Ecosystem
A layered hyperblock proposal separates pedestrians from vehicles and threads continuous green infrastructure through Cerdà's iconic grid.
LGA Architectural Partners Runs a Tiled River Through Anduhyaun's Toronto Shelter for Indigenous Women
In Toronto, an 18-room shelter for Indigenous women and children uses cedar, blue tile and a red circular room to give healing a spatial form.
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.
Antonelli and Herry Architectes Stack a Planted Concrete Car Park to Replace Surface Parking in Strasbourg
At Crédit Mutuel's Wacken campus in Strasbourg, a terraced parking silo absorbs an open lot and returns the ground to planting and paths.
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.
