Today's #SustainableSpotlight | An innovative new district cooling facility, located in Florida, is helping reduce the surrounding 56 acre #residential#development's carbon footprint on a massive scale. Read more via @worldarchnews https://t.co/8RCvlUok9D
"‘Vertical forest’ tower will have 10,000 plants on its facade in bid to reinvigorate biodiversity" - read more about the city district of Utrecht's plans for roof tops to be “greened” with plants & mosses, or have solar panels installed. Via @guardianeco: https://t.co/lAj7zPS6sg
One of the amazing #greenbuilds from this @euronews Living article is the Corallo House project, created by @pazarquitectura in Guatemala and designed to interact harmoniously with the surrounding nature https://t.co/o7c64SDrmt
'Architectural practice @FeildenFowles is due to create a £16.5m Central Hall building at York’s National Railway Museum. The building will provide a world-class visitor attraction and be an exemplar of #lowcarbon and #sustainable#architecture' https://t.co/gmlwTq86LW
It's almost time for Earth Hour 2020 🌎👏 We've teamed-up with @WWF_UK to celebrate this global initiative. #StayHome and join in by turning your lights out at 8:30pm (your local time) on Saturday 28 March!! https://t.co/cXV4b5nsHP #construction#architecture#EarthHour#building
Introducing The Brighton @WasteHouse - a ‘living laboratory’ made from 85% discarded household and construction sites items, designed to demonstrate how these materials can be successfully repurposed within the #builtenvironment https://t.co/vRqis1JL3N
"The warm, natural appearance of wood and the plants growing on its facade bring the building to life and that could be a model for futures sustainable developments in our cites." - Plans for the 'Toronto Tree Tower', by Studio Precht https://t.co/hnzAS8H9mV #sustainable#timber
#RIBA architects: Need information of the lifecycle of #wood in your designs? Working towards the #RIBA2030Challenge ? Visit the life cycle database on @Wood_for_Good here: https://t.co/Xl6vzfTt4c
Designed to be 'the breathing lungs of the city', architectural practice Studio Symbiosis have designed 'Aũra' air-purifying towers for Delhi, India in a bid to help tackle the high levels of pollution in the city - read more via @dezeen https://t.co/QgFX1fBvAJ
"If we are serious about tackling #ClimateChange and benefiting nature, we need to base policy on the full suite of evidence and embrace positive solutions." Two great letters in the Guardian by @PaulBrannenNE & @StuGood3@forestsandwood
https://t.co/lOU1b9XwnU #mondaythoughts
“There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.” - @BarackObama, Former U.S. President. #CompletelySustainable
'The #CityTree is the world‘s first bio-tech filter to quantifiably improve air quality'. According to Green City Solutions, 90% of all city dwellers breathe in polluted air every day. Today, their innovative 'CityTree' product launches in Berlin https://t.co/emZPwjYwZS