GAB Report library
Buildings
-
Ecocity World Summit 2022 is Virtual
Now in its 14th edition, the Ecocity World Summit, the longest running conference on sustainable cities, has come a long way since the first Summit held in Berkeley, California in 1990, making its way throughout the world, from Australia to China, from Turkey to the UAE. Looking back, I have had the opportunity to volunteer…
-
Architecture at Zero 2020 Winners
-
2020 Architecture at Zero Competition
The 2020 Architecture at Zero competition, now in its ninth year, was conceived as a response to the zero net energy targets set out by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) in the 2008 report, California’s Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. In this report, the CPUC set out four “Big Bold Energy Efficiency Strategies”…
-
Facades+ San Francisco
The symposium program includes three sessions covering issues unique to the region, including innovative building skins, high performance facades, and the future face of San Francisco.
-
nZEB Oodi – More Than Just a Library
Editor’s note: If I have the opportunity, I always try to include some personal perspective on the projects that I feature on the Green Architecture and Building Report. My friends Andrea Lee and Giles Richter recently traveled to Helsinki and spent at least a couple of hours exploring a really cool, new building near the…
-
Simplicity and Sustainability Merge at Medical Campus
The Humanitas University of Milan project comes to a conclusion with the student residences designed by architect Filippo Taidelli of FTA studio based in Milan, Italy. Research, education, and hospitality combined with sustainability become a model of excellence in education. Pieve Emanuele (MI) –The opening of the Mario Luzzatto Student House residences completes the Humanitas…
-
2019 COTE Top Ten
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the COTE Top Ten awards program for sustainable design excellence. The winning projects not only met the AIA Committee on the Environment’s rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value but also demonstrated that good design is more than just pretty looking buildings. Many of the winning projects live…
-
Swiss Village School Doubles As Communal Power Station
Neue Schule Port, an energy-plus building and MINERGIE-A rated elementary school, is located in a residential neighborhood in the Swiss village of Port. With its distinctive folded roof structure, the school’s roof design references the pitched roofs of the surrounding houses, the rural history of the region and the smooth hills of the Jura Mountains.…
-
The Hague Leads the Way to Creating Cities of the Future
With Socio-Technical City, UNStudio – in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts – has created a new urban vision for the ‘Central Innovation District’ (CID) test site in The Hague. The CID test site covers a 1 x 1 km area in the centre of The Hague. Currently the test site is a major…
-
ZERO Code As the New International Code
A few weeks ago I refreshed my memory on the urgency of a critical topic: the ZERO Code and why we need to work on achieving zero carbon emissions NOW. The webinar on the Architecture 2030 ZERO Code was hosted by the AIA Codes Advocacy Group, moderated by Paul Karrer, and featured presenters, architects Ed…