Visual Communication in Sustainable Architecture
Clear visual communication helps teams explain sustainable building decisions around daylight, materials, reuse, landscape and site context before construction.
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Eco-Friendly Home Ideas: 12 Practical Ways to Build and Live More Sustainably
Discover practical eco-friendly home ideas, from energy-saving upgrades and sustainable materials to water conservation, vintage decor, solar panels, and healthier indoor spaces.
Sustainable Real Estate Development: Practices, Benefits, and Global Examples
Sustainable real estate development reduces environmental impact, lowers operating costs, and creates healthier homes, buildings, and communities.
How Old Plumbing Increases Your Home’s Carbon Footprint
Leaks, heat loss, and inefficient fixtures waste water and energy. Here’s how outdated plumbing quietly raises emissions—and what to fix first.
How to Add a Touch of Luxury Without Overdoing Your Interiors
True luxury lies in balance and the impeccable quality of a few carefully selected items. Let’s look at some techniques that will transform your interior.
Ori Orisun: Designing a Bio-Inclusive Future with Insects
For designer Ori Orisun Merhav, the future of materials isn’t being invented—it’s already here, perfected over eons by some of nature’s tiniest architects.
How Prefab Construction Addresses Traditional Problems
How Prefab Construction Addresses Problems With Traditional Construction By Tommy O’Shaughnessy, the owner of Rent a Backyard The traditional construction industry comes with an incredibly high environmental cost; experts estimate that building new homes and buildings is responsible for 10% of total global emissions, while operating, heating, and cooling these energy inefficient buildings adds another … Read more
Create a Low-Impact Home with Sustainable Design Principles
This articles explores how you can adopt sustainable design principles to help you create a low-impact home, a living space that is eco-conscious and beautiful.
Sustainable Home Resolutions: Simple Habits and Design Ideas
A look at home resolutions that will help you ease into greener living. These cost-effective suggestions can keep morale high and carbon footprints low.
Interview – Pinar Guvenc & SOUR: Designing for a VUCA World
We catch up with Pinar Guvenc, at global architectural firm SOUR, and discuss today’s design standard that is no longer serving communities or the environment.
A Guide to Biophilic Design – Function, Beauty, & Comfort
From the human need to reconnect with nature, biophilic design was born — bringing the natural environment back into our structures and community spaces.
Sustainable Flooring: Complete Guide to Eco-Friendly Options
It’s time to separate the truth from the buzzword of Sustainability, with a focus on the environmental impacts of flooring.
Designing for VUCA Environments & Social and Urban Problems
Design studio focussed on social and urban problems discusses today’s need of designing for VUCA: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous environments.
What Is Eco-Minimalist Architecture?
Whether you’re building, moving, or hoping to renovate, these tips for eco-minimalist architecture will align your living space with your sustainable values.
An Interactive Online Test: Recycling and Waste Management
SOUR, an ethical design studio, just launched a new interactive online test tool on behavior around individual and corporate waste patterns and management.
Climate Change and The Property Market: Risks, Opportunities
It is true that much has been accomplished in the property market sector in terms of sustainable designs and materials, but there is still a long way to go.
Green Home Renovations: Facts, Figures, and the Future
More and more people are looking to invest in green home renovations, recognizing the environmental advantages, and also the family health benefits.
What Are the Environmental Benefits of High-Density Housing?
The environmental benefits of high-density housing are undeniable, but they only exist if everyone involved in planning prioritizes sustainability.
Sustainable Construction Materials: A Promising Future
Sustainable Materials for Construction Are Promising, but What Makes a Material “Sustainable”?
Carbon-Neutral Architecture: Combating Climate Change
Insights into carbon-neutral architecture, where climate-friendly initiatives are used to balance out emissions, and how this relates to climate change
Sustainable Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide
How Architecture Plays a Part in a Building’s Sustainability and Eco-Friendliness
The Impact of Suburban Construction on the Environment
As we look for methods to combat climate change, suburban home construction continues to fill the nation with sprawl.
The Environmental Impacts of Asbestos
Exposure to asbestos can cause multiple negative health effects, but asbestos can also pollute the air, water, soil, and settle on different objects.
Sustainable Office Technology Options for Your Small Business
Technology has made it possible to do more in less time, bringing small businesses a sustainable competitive advantage.
Architects As Sustainable Actionists
International architecture and design studio SOUR dedicated their Journal Issue 03 to the footprint created by architects, products, and our built environment.
A Guide to Eco-Friendly Home Upgrades
Eco-friendly home upgrades make your home more comfortable and become major assets in adding value to your home. This guide offers some deeper insights.
SOUR Launches Carbon Calculator for Architecture and Construction
SOUR Studio, a design studio that addresses social and urban problems, has launched a Carbon Calculator for Architecture and Construction.
Understanding the Importance of Eco-Friendly Solutions in Public Space Design
Design-wise, times are changing: More and more eco-friendly solutions are being developed & implemented in the sphere of public space design.
Support Black Designers: Students and Alumnae Install Mural at the University of Toronto to Call For the Dismantling of Systemic Racism in Design
The “Support Black Designers” mural at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty contributes to a larger discourse on equality.
Modular Construction: More Efficient, More Environmental
Greater focus on sustainability in recent years has led architects and builders to put the environment in focus with their creations.