Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
Atlas Obscura
Luke Fater
31 March 2021
Bermuda
Text
800-1500 Words
There is no natural freshwater source on Bermuda, so residents turn to rainfall as a way to fulfill their water needs. The white limestone Bermuda roofs are used to catch and redirect rain into underground tanks that ...
23 March 2021
Winterthur, Switzerland
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
A warehouse in Switzerland is being transformed into new creative workspaces. The catch: It’s being constructed out of reused building materials. About 70 percent of it is being made from old materials like wood floor...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Klaus Sieg
8 March 2021
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
The Brock Commons Tallwood House in Canada was the tallest building made of wood when it opened in 2017. Now, thanks to government policies, scientific research, and hundreds of examples of proof-of-concept, more deve...
1 March 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Throughout the U.S. a group of nursing homes known as Green House Cottages are providing a model of care through their patient-centered architecture, philosophy, and organization. Unlike the typical nursing home, each...
22 February 2021
Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Green House Project, which is a network model of nursing homes across states, has been able to largely avoid the spread of Covid-19 amongst residents, with five times fewer cases than the national nursing home ave...
8 February 2021
Gothenburg, Sweden
Text
800-1500 Words
A pop-up public space was installed in Gothenburg, the latest in a Swedish experiment that’s looking at how to transform parking spaces on city streets into community areas. Previous installations of the experiment, k...
5 February 2021
Malmö, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
As London starts to implement its plan for boroughs to implement sustainable urban greening strategies, officials look to Malmö as a guide after the Swedish city used a green space factor (GSF) as a way of calculating...
5 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Apartments at Front Flats, a new residential building in Philadelphia, is powered by 492 solar panels that are wrapped around the building. The point: to demonstrate that developers can design buildings that are energ...
5 January 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Street Moves initiative in Sweden is pushing local communities to become the designers of their own streets’ layouts and look at urban planning through the lens of the “one-minute city.” Through a public-private p...
5 January 2021
Mountain View, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the U.S. an influx of new mental health facilities are being designed through a lens of "evidence-based" architecture that aims to use the design itself as a means of treatment. With studies indicating that acc...
22 September 2020
Spokane, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Eastern Washington University recently built the first tall wood office building in the state joining hundreds of other large “mass-timber” projects in the United States. This growing industry constructs panels, beams...
BBC
Vittoria Traverso
16 September 2020
Paris, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the world, local governments and communities are looking for ways to draw boundaries that guide people's behavior towards social distancing. Although the perfect sign has yet to be determined, urban psychologis...
25 August 2020
Harlem, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
PLAY NYC, a nonprofit in New York, is reviving a historic pop-up playground concept, which started over two decades ago, in order to increase children's access to playgrounds and physical activity. The concept is simp...
14 July 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
More and more commercial real estate projects are popping up around the United States that are focused on “deep green” building. This movement suggests that it’s not enough to just make a building out of renewable mat...
13 May 2020
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An Indiana-based architect started a virtual camp for elementary school-aged girls focused on the lesser-known field of landscape architecture. The weekly virtual lessons work by explaining the career and concepts of ...
Business NH Magazine
Anne Saunders
22 April 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Design students are being taught about accessibility and the challenges faced by those who live with disabilities at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. While new construction must comply with basic accessibi...
The Salt Lake Tribune
Heather May
9 March 2020
Kearns, Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and air pollution, Habitat for Humanity Salt Lake Valley is building airtight homes that will also reduce energy costs and be affordable for people ...
6 March 2020
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Deanna Van Buren and her nonprofit firm Designing Justice/Designing Spaces use architecture to advance social justice and criminal-justice-reform ideas, designing workplaces, meeting places, and homes nationwide found...
22 January 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Denver, Colorado, one homeless shelter is using trauma-informed design to make residents feel more at home and less likely to sleep outside. Architects building Sanderson Apartments considered past traumas when cho...
15 December 2019
Kathmandu, Nepal
Text
Under 800 Words
A Nepalese company called Traditional Homes was formed in order to restore traditional Newari homes to prevent them from being demolished. The houses are by the indigenous Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley and boas...
14 November 2019
Antakya, Turkey
Text
800-1500 Words
After discovering historic artifacts on land preparing to become a hotel in Antakya, Turkey, owners chose to develop a combined hotel and history museum, a rare act of collaboration between preservationists and develo...
23 October 2019
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Coming to terms with the past requires reexamining the way we represent both history and art. The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA, is on the forefront of correcting the absence of enslaved craftsmen in representations ...
15 October 2019
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
After the homeowners association denied his request to install solar panels on his roof due to their aesthetic, Indianapolis-resident Joey Myles used SolarSkin to disguise the panels to look like asphalt shingles. The...
26 September 2019
Santee, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
San Diego County’s Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility was redesigned to look less like a jail and more like a community. The newly designed facility prioritizes rehabilitation over punishment by providing educ...
20 May 2019
Harare, Zimbabwe
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Buildings with permeable surfaces increase energy efficiency, mimicking natural structures. In Harare, Zimbabwe, the Eastgate Centre employs methods borrowed from termite mound construction to efficiently regulate the...
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