sustainable design

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has undergone as many twists and turns as a Hollywood script since it was unveiled in 2014. Having missed its planned 2021 completion date, the ambitious project is now set for a 2025 opening.

Back in 2017, Chiangmai Life Architects used bamboo to create a breezy sports hall at the Panyaden International School in Thailand. The firm has now returned to the same school to add a beautiful new library that's mostly constructed from bamboo.

Even by the eclectic Dutch studio's standards, MVRDV's new Valley skyscraper in Amsterdam is an eye-catching project. It takes the form of three "geology inspired" towers that have odd angular shapes, and host significant greenery too.

Architect Ludwig Godefroy has created a minimalist hotel that embraces environmental consciousness and social responsibility. The result is a collection of nine bare-boned concrete suites that seem to be taken over by the surrounding natural jungle.

Ingenhoven Associates has completed work on a pair of skyscrapers in Tokyo. Featuring a bottom-heavy design enlivened by lush greenery, the tallest of the two towers is also Japan's tallest residential skyscraper.

UNStudio has revealed plans for a new office tower in Germany. Enlivened by a strip of greenery running up its facade, the building will reduce its grid-based energy use with an ambitious approach to sustainable design, including a solar facade.

Singapore's Changi Airport is already notable as the site of the world's largest indoor waterfall but now Heatherwick Studio and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates have joined forces to extend it with an eye-catching new terminal.

Commissioned to design an education campus on a challenging coastal site that's buffeted by wind and waves, BIG has conceived an angular greenery covered building. It will shelter a park area, while maximizing daylight and views inside.

Designed to withstand earthquakes and last for 500 years, the PAE Living Building is an impressively green project that has been constructed largely from timber and minimizes its energy usage with tech like solar panels.

Consumer electronics giant Acer has released a new Chromebook that could have you turning a little green – not with envy, but in an eco-friendly sense. The Vero 514 makes use of recycled and recyclable materials, while also embracing repairability.

Australian researchers have analyzed the structural properties of walls made from end-of-life car tires packed with dirt, giving engineers some figures to work with and making a well-known upcycling technique available to the construction industry.

Slated for Nanjing, China, MVRDV's upcoming Oasis Towers will add some greenery to the concrete metropolis with a pair of skyscrapers that will sport an unusual "stratified" overall form inspired by nature and covered in shrubs and trees.