Instead of tearing down houses, a local business in Minneapolis picks them apart and resells the material, reducing waste and creating jobs.

In Jakarta, a building for evicted slum-dwellers has alcoves for hawking goods, stairs designed for cross-floor conversation and gardens to grow your own food.

Architecture pioneer Anna Heringer takes sustainable construction to a new — old — level, building with the earth beneath her feet.

Long dismissed as hippie havens, off-grid communities are getting a fresh look as wasteful construction practices come under scrutiny.

Architect David Benjamin is bringing his biology-inspired recipe for construction materials to an affordable housing project in Oakland, California.

Cheap, strong and plentiful, bamboo has been used in Hong Kong for ages as an ultra-sustainable building material. Other countries are catching on.

Imported from Japan in 1876, kudzu strangles forests and farmland throughout the South. Could it build cities instead?

In our new ongoing series, Build Better, we explore how advancements in construction are leading the way toward decarbonized cities.

A false association with drugs that banned ‘hempcrete’ from the US residential building code has been lifted, paving the way for widespread use.