Sustainability | Architecture Now

‘The way of the future’: E-mobility

Practice | Transport is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand; how can companies explore alternatives?

Practice | Using already existing CO₂ to produce building materials is not far off. Explore how the process might help our planet.

Projects | A home shared by humans, cats, chickens and fish combines cutting-edge architecture with off-the-grid green initiatives.

Review | Rochelle Payne brings us the fifth update on her journey to create the Living House: her family’s Beachlands Passive House.

Projects | Landscape architect Richard Hart speaks about designing for the proposed Pukehina Eco Village in the Western Bay of Plenty.

News | The Festival of Transitional Architecture returns to Christchurch, now in collaboration with the NZIA Canterbury branch.

Review | The NZGBC released an exciting new Green Star rating tool for the existing building market at an event in late November.

People | Amelia Melbourne-Hayward caught up with Andrew Eagles, head of the NZGBC, to take the green pulse of the industry.

Review | Rochelle Payne introduces the Living House, a rammed earth home that is targeting three sustainability rating tools at once.

Review | Camille Khouri reviews the NZGBC and Property Council’s Green Property Summit 2017, held in late March in Auckland.

Review | Barnaby Bennett reviews the fourth Festival of Transitional Architecture, held late last year in Christchurch.

Practice | The newly-appointed chair of the World Green Building Council, Lee Siang Tai, discusses how we can create sustainable cities.

News | Tesla and SolarCity announce new technology that allows homes to capture solar energy through integrated rooftop solar tiles.

Review | Partner Content: A look at some of Vo Trong Nghia Architects’ projects in urban Vietnam that incorporate biophilic design.

Practice | Fabrizio Calenti discusses his company’s quest to turn post-consumer waste products into nylon yarn for the carpet industry.

Review | Stronger than steel and able to withstand compression better than concrete, this raw tubular material is making a comeback.

News | Australian company Big World Homes has designed a modular, flat-packed tiny home to create off-grid homeowner communities.

Review | Architect Russell Devlin discusses home battery storage systems and whether this solar technology is now coming of age.

News | A Melbourne town will become the world’s first Tesla suburb with the installation of Tesla Powerwall technology within houses.

Practice | Two Kiwi designers who specialise in sustainable architecture discuss how we can maximise energy efficiency in our homes.