Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Years ago I believed architects should go back to the ABCs ...

Sustainability and energy efficiency now shape decisions across the built environment. Rising energy costs, climate pressures ...

On Manhattan’s West Side, adjacent to the 26-acre Hudson Yards commercial redevelopment, a 200,000-sf cultural and arts center under construction is one of the latest—and, at $435 million, ...

We design buildings to make human lives better—but should we also design them to make bacteria healthier? A new study posits just that, suggesting that the microbial communities that live amongst us ...

Set among a tranquil landscape, the hybrid steel and mass-timber Contemplative Commons aims to foster organic exploration of new ways of experiencing the world.

It happens well before work crews are ready to pour a foundation, erect walls, or install windows on any new structure. Call it the genesis phase, the design vision that begins in the minds of the ...