A concrete grid frames views of a leafy garden at this home in São Paulo, completed by local architects Gabriel Kogan and ...

About 2,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, in the dark stillness off the coast of California, a concrete sphere the size ...

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When it’s finished this fall, the Bullitt Center (bullittcenter.org) will be the greenest commercial building on the planet, using solar panels, geothermal wells, composting toilets and rainwater ...

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Discover the fascinating process of making aerated concrete, a lightweight and energy-efficient building material widely used in modern construction. This video breaks down each step of the ...

InventWood’s various shades. Photo: Courtesy company Wood is typically considered a more environmentally-friendly building material than steel or concrete. Steel accounts for as much as 9 ...

A U.S.-based biotech startup has developed a new material that mimics the look and feel of natural wood while outperforming steel in terms of both strength and durability. InventWood’s engineered wood ...

The Coignet Stone Company Building, newly on sale for $2.99 million, is the earliest known concrete building in New York City. It was constructed in the 1870s as a functional advertisement for its ...

In 1954, Attenborough was working as a young producer on Zoo ... Building on the legacy of Life on Earth, Attenborough’s later series began to respond to these critiques. Blue Planet (2001 ...