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Turning vacant offices into residential buildings could help solve several pressing problems.

With its quick growth cycle and ability to store carbon, an age-old building material gets new attention.

Architects and landscape architects respond to potentially deadly heat events with passive cooling strategies.

Projects from Brooks + Scarpa, Perkins&Will, and Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects show how design can help a rapidly growing segment of the population thrive.

This month's special section examines timber construction, including strategies for sustainable sourcing, policies facilitating the material’s use, and engineering innovations accommodating unexpected typologies and unique locations.

Architects grapple with the carbon impacts and benefits of building with wood.

Stumptown's mass-timber airport terminal prepares for takeoff.

European countries and cities have a slew of initiatives underway to incentivize building with wood. However, major obstacles persist.

The Sierra Institute and atelierjones propose the use of fire-hardened, cross-laminated timber to replace the nearly 600 Greenville homes destroyed by California's Dixie Wildfire in 2021.

The carmaker gears up to showcase its brand with a sculptural, glass-enclosed structure topped with a cantilevered, timber-framed roof.