Sustainable Architecture
Architecture and design practices that prioritize environmental responsibility, resource efficiency, and long-term ecological impact.
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.
The Zabaleen Melting Pot: Recycling as Architecture in Cairo's Informal Waste Quarter
A vertical recycling complex in Manshiyet Nasser makes waste infrastructure visible, turning material flows into public space and urban identity.
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.
Symbiotic Pack: A Foldable Modular Balcony Inspired by Space Station Logic
A retrofittable balcony system that folds, connects, and redeploys along building facades to restore outdoor living in dense housing.
SEATHECITY Opera: Where a Square Meets a Circle on Tallinn's Waterfront
Veronika Ruppert's shortlisted opera house uses two geometric figures to negotiate the threshold between city grid and Baltic horizon.
Dynamic Modules Shelter: A Telescopic Ring for Mountain Pilgrimage
A circular modular framework of steel, bamboo, and fabric grows vertically with demand, wrapping communal ground in adaptable shelter.
