On April 15 and 16, 2010, Budapest will be the venue of this year’s „Build Green CEE“ congress. The event, which is organized in collaboration with the region’s Green Building council, aims to provide a broad overview of recent developments in sustainable construction in Central and Eastern Europe.

After Aichi in 2005 and Shanghai 2010, yet another World Exhibition will be staged in Asia. “The Living Ocean and Coast” is the theme of the 2012 International Exposition in Yeosu, South Korea. It asks for a greater recognition and awareness of the oceans and marine resources, and their importance to mankind.

Many contemporary buildings in tropical countries still mimic architectural styles and building methods from North America or Europe, without any adaptation to local climate whatsoever. A notable exception is the Academy for Girls in Lilongwe/Malawi, which was planned by New-York based Studio MDA and is expected to be finished ...

In downtown Dallas, a former parking lot is set to be transformed into one of the first truly sustainable building blocks in the United States. „Forwarding Dallas“ by Portuguese architects Atelier Data and Moov will feature roof gardens and 100% renewable energy supply.

The Delft-based cepezed architects will design the new headquarters of Environment Brussels, the former Brussels Institute for Management of the Environment. The building, which is located in one of the larges urban renewal areas in the Belgian capital, is scheduled to achieve the Passive House Standard.

Maya Lin, the architect of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., has completed a new sculpture for the Renzo-Piano-designed California Academy of Sciences. The cone-shaped artwork entitled „What is missing“ is part of a multi-sited, „multimedia memorial“ dedicated to species which have become extinct due to climate change ...

Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer, Peter Mösle and Dr. Michael Schwarz offer a Green Building guide for principals, architects and planners. The English-language edition of their book entitled “Green Building – Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture” has been published by Springer.

As part of the ‘Green Architecture for the Future’ exhibition (on show until Dec. 18th), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited the Danish architecture firm 3XN to design a pavilion demonstrating cutting edge possibilities with sustainable and intelligent materials. The result is a Moebius strip made of cork and bio-resin ...

Congresses and cultural events can also be managed on a zero-carbon basis. But not all organisers go so far as the Bauhaus University of Weimar did with its campus cinema project. A team of students under the guidance of Professors Jürgen Ruth and Rainer Gumpp erected a cinema pavilion there in which all the energy required for ...

The landscape around Stoke-on-Trent in northwestern England is known for its lakes and canals. On Westport Lake, a new Visitors Center (rated BREEAM Excellent) has just been completed by Walker Simpson Architects that combines natural ventilation, natural building materials (such as straw bales) and the natural cooling ...