Smart by Design: Eco Conscious & Tech Forward

On Washington's lush Bainbridge Island, one community strives for quality of life as a sustainable initiative.

In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap,...

A rural house in Ontario doesn't fuss around and fits right into the surrounding landscape.

A couple’s retirement home on a nature preserve in Carmel, California, emerges as a series of eco-conscious pavilions that rest...

The firm OneButton specializes in creating custom technology solutions for spaces ranging from offices to residences.

The architecture firm superkül and home builder Great Gulf create a prefab with a self-regulating indoor climate.

Two West Coast transplants, priced out of San Francisco, build their North Carolina dream home.

Using a combination of passive design principles and active technologies, LGA Architectural Partners forges a smart,...

In a leafy Toronto neighborhood, a Cor-Ten–clad family home is wired for the future.

These days, it seems like everyone is busy saving the world.

On an island 20 miles off the coast of Maine, a writer, with the help of his daughter, built not only a room but an entire green...

In 1892, when John Muir founded the Sierra Club, the only "web" he knew about was the kind spun by spiders, and social...

These environmentally-friendly office spaces prove it's about working smarter, not harder.

Carver + Schicketanz Architects’ eco-friendly renovation earned this mid-century-modern home LEED Platinum certification and...

Architect Robert Swatt, designer of the GreenCity Lofts condo complex on the border of Oakland and Emeryville, California, makes...

Now that sustainability is de rigeur in the architecture world, it is no surprise that a new tome from Taschen puts the solar...

Photo © Tim Griffith/CAS Everything from the meals to the materials are green at the California Academy of Sciences, opening...