Clad in Nakamoto Forestry’s yakisugi siding, the Issaquah Passive House quietly defers to the surrounding landscape.

Three housing developments—in the Bronx, Bay Area, and Vancouver, B.C.—achieve lofty social and environmental goals on tight budgets.

The 691-foot-tall Winthrop Center, by Millennium Partners and Handel Architects, also contains the world's largest Passive House office space.

A western Massachusetts house is designed around daylight, views, and the topography.

As awareness of the emissions associated with materials and construction grows, architects rethink meeting complex sustainable building standards.

Built to Passive House standards, this urban complex speaks to its context with an operable facade of slatted Spanish pine.

The Brooklyn-based firm CO Adaptive focuses exclusively on renovating existing structures, transforming many of them into Passive House buildings.

A trio of projects in different climates and settings offers insights for living with a smaller energy footprint.

A gigantic Passive House facility at Melbourne’s Monash University radically reduces energy consumption.

Projects relying on a stringent standard imported from Europe grow in both complexity and scale.