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Prince Charles announces plans for new town in Kent
Prince Charles' private estate has revealed plans for a sustainable, "landscape-led" new town in Faversham, Kent, created in collaboration with architect Ben Pentreath. More
Prince Charles' private estate has revealed plans for a sustainable, "landscape-led" new town in Faversham, Kent, created in collaboration with architect Ben Pentreath. More
A sustainable construction consultant has attacked Grimshaw Architects' Sustainability Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai for having an embodied carbon footprint of almost 18,000 tonnes – a figure that is double the recommended level for a building of its size. More
The Dezeen Awards 2021 sustainability shortlist has been revealed, with 15 projects selected across three new sustainability categories. More
Climate activist group Architects Climate Action Network has launched Households Declare, a UK campaign that aims to reduce carbon emissions caused by homes. More
Associated Architects has unveiled plans for Curzon Wharf, a 53-storey development in Birmingham, UK, that it claims will be the first skyscraper to produce no net emissions in operation. More
US firms Miller Hull Partnership and Lord Aeck Sargent have designed a highly sustainable building at Georgia Tech university that generates more electricity and recycles more water than it uses. More
The Cork House, designed by CSK Architects in collaboration with the Bartlett, was the subject of the second Dezeen x Knauf Architecture Project Talk. Register now to watch the recording. More
Danish architecture studio Henning Larsen has broken ground on The New School, a primary school in Sundby that will be the first in Denmark to be given a Nordic Ecolabel. More
This one-minute video shows how a local construction company is using waste coffee husks to build affordable and eco-friendly housing for communities in Colombia. More
Young architects are rejecting "cookie-cutter modernism" in favour of approaches that prioritise conserving the earth's resources according to Joseph Grima, who has written a manifesto calling for a new type of non-extractive architecture. More
Bologna-based architecture studio Mario Cucinella Architects and 3D printing specialists WASP have collaborated to create a low-carbon housing prototype that is 3D printed using clay. More
To honour Earth Day, we've rounded up 10 ways architects are reshaping the built environment to benefit both people and the planet. More
In this live talk produced by Dezeen to launch a new collaboration with V–A–C , Space Caviar co-founder Joseph Grima introduced Non-Extractive Architecture, a manifesto and exhibition advocating for a new type of architecture that does not exploit the planet. More
Researchers at Purdue University have developed an "ultra-white" paint that reflects 98 per cent of sunlight and deflects infrared heat, allowing buildings to cool below the surrounding air temperature. More
Taiwanese architect Arthur Huang, materials expert Seetal Solanki and furniture designer Sebastian Cox have joined the first-ever panel of sustainability experts to judge the Dezeen Awards 2021 sustainability categories. More
Australian studio Austin Maynard Architects has designed a multi-volume, family home in Melbourne that produces its own energy and has a white-shingled facade. More
BakerBrown Studio has designed a garden pavilion for the Glyndebourne opera house in England that will use the venue's discarded champagne corks and seafood shells as building materials. More
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati is among four winners of the global Helsinki Energy Challenge, with a proposal to create island-like, floating seawater reservoirs that would store heat to help decarbonise the city's heating network. More
In this previously unpublished interview, Lacaton & Vassal co-founder Jean-Philippe Vassal explained why the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio believes that buildings should be renovated instead of demolished. More
Architects can help fight climate change by specifying tropical timber, according to Timber Trade Federation CEO David Hopkins. More