This year's winning projects share a commonality: A connection to sustainable-design education.
Kroon Hall, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, by Centerbrook Architects and Planners and Hopkins Architects.
Sustainable Residence in Kansas City, Kan., by Studio 804.
North House, by Team North/RVTR
The Bullitt Center in Seattle, by the Miller Hull Partnership.
William Browning of Terrapin Bright Green.
ECO-STRUCTURE's third annual competition seeks out outstanding environmental performance and design in four categories.
Lessons in reuse are brought to life in a 1920s warehouse that was transformed into an environmentally conscious school.
Forward Momentum: A mixed-use building in Portland puts its efficiency efforts in plain sight.
In the nation's oil capital, one house—ECO-STRUCTURE's 2010 Greenhouse winner—proudly declares its independence from fossil fuels.
Jolly Green Giant: SOM's Digital Media City Landmark Tower takes eco-design to new heights.
ECO-STRUCTURE speaks with Peter Busby of Busby Perkins+Will about the current state and future of green building.
This year's Evergreen Awards competition recognizes five winners in three categories of sustainable design and building performance
Fulfilling Aldo Leopold's belief that ethical behavior includes respecting the land, the Leopold Legacy Center examines the relationships between buildings, their inhabitants and their sites
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca's design of the Region 8 headquarters is an Ecommercial category winner in the 2009 Evergreen Awards
A winner in the Greenhouse category of the 2009 Evergreen Awards, LivingHomes prototype house aims for high-efficiency
A winner in the Greenhouse category of the 2009 Evergreen Awards, the EcoDEEP Haus doubles the size of a 1940s bungalow but cuts its energy use nearly in half
Steven Winter, FAIA, has spent 40 years championing energy efficient buildings
2008 Evergreen Awards: First Place Winner. Although green-building practices have taken hold in virtually every market sector, construction methods for conservatories haven’t changed much since the 1840s.
2008 Evergreen Awards Second Place Winner. If one of the original occupants of the 1928 Mutual Building in Lansing, Mich., was to walk into the space today, the experience would be both familiar and astounding.
2008 Evergreen Awards Third Place Winner. Many companies look to reduce their energy footprint by scaling back their use of air conditioning, but the staff of Seattle architecture firm Weber Thompson has taken it a step further.
2008 Evergreen Awards Honorable Mention. Architecture students at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, are granted an opportunity given to few other architecture students in the country.
Nominations for the 2012 class of LEED Fellows will be accepted until Feb. 8.
After more than 10 years in operation, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Philip Merrill Environmental Center provides a number of lessons.
Green Roofs for Health Cities’ Awards of Excellence projects demonstrate a wide-range of green roof and wall benefits.