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Green walls cool cities and create urban habitats
Beyond cooling, green walls also enhance urban biodiversity. The researchers found that plant-covered facades hosted over 100 ...
Plant-covered walls can combat urban heat and help biodiversity
Plant-covered facades help cool urban areas and provide habitats for plants, birds, insects and other organisms. An ...
ArchDaily10d
Modernism in Africa: Shedding Light on Nigeria’s Rich Heritage of Education Buildings
Discover the evolution of Modern educational architecture in Africa, highlighting Nigeria's key university buildings and ...
Reuters23d
Los Angeles wildfires spark interest in adobe, natural building materials
Natural building using less flammable materials gain interest post-wildfires Officials open to alternative building materials like adobe Challenges include financing and insurance for new ...
The Business Journals23d
Historic M.A. Winter Building in D.C. sells for $8.2M, new owner weighs conversion
Jarvis declined to comment on the M.A. Winter transaction. "It's such a cool building, at ‘Main and Main’ in the core of the city," Jarvis said back in 2023. Campbell had hoped to see the ...
Forbes24d
Why Retrofitting Buildings Is Often Greener Than Demolishing Them
As the demand for built environment grows, the inevitable question becomes do we knock down existing buildings in order to make way for new developments, or try wherever possible to utilise ...
Time27d
Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber
A yellow crane hovers above a building site in Sickla, a former industrial neighbourhood that’s home to one of Stockholm’s biggest real estate projects. But instead of delivering concrete ...
Dezeen28d
ASAP incorporates historic facade into mixed-use building in Buffalo
American studio ASAP has integrated a century-old brick facade into a residential and retail building called Allen Apartments in Buffalo, USA. Located in Buffalo's Allentown neighbourhood ...
The Hindu29d
Musi River Historic Buildings on 2025 World Monuments Watch
The ‘Musi River Historic Buildings’ in Hyderabad have been put on the 2025 World Monuments Watch, in an announcement made by the New York-based organisation on late on Wednesday (January 15 ...
CBC.ca29d
Dramatic change to Centennial Building facade rejected by Fredericton committee
and its planned inset balconies did not disrupt the building's vertical grid-patterned facade. The new design replaced that facade with a cladding system that included metal panels and featured ...
The Vancouver Sun29d
Should the facade of the Vancouver heritage building at 500 Dunsmuir St. be retained?
The demolition of the red-brick heritage building at 500 Dunsmuir St. is to begin Friday morning, but unlike some earlier cases, the facade of the 115-year-old former hotel will not be preserved.
Dezeen29d
SOM's Burj Khalifa was the most significant building of 2010
Next in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series we examine SOM's Burj Khalifa – the most significant building completed in 2010 and still the world's tallest skyscraper.