Strawless in Seattle is now officially enshrined into law.

Jeff Bezos said “Alexa, open The Spheres” and it evidently worked.

Even the fruits and vegetables are wrapped in plastic so that the sensors can read them, inculcating a culture of convenience and waste.

There's no 'turning into a pumpkin at midnight' because the pumpkin is where it's at!

Residents and businesses alike are joining the Lonely Whale Foundation to help stem ocean pollution by giving up plastic straws for the month.

Seattle architect Mike Eliason describes what he learned about their housing policies.

These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.

Bike share programs are public transit, and that requires public support.

Find out why one family found living on a renovated bus to be an appealing tiny-house-on-wheels alternative.

Which really, is how every building and office should be designed.

It really could be the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing.

I could write this post in my sleep, it is such a tired playbook that happens so often in real estate development.

A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd-fund a series of portable, off-grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.

You are not just buying a box but a full service design/build package. Could this take container architecture mainstream?

And it is beautiful too.

This traditional Japanese method of finishing wood is having a dramatic resurgence.

These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.

A large section of a 140-year-old Western hemlock tree is faithfully reconstructed by hand from cast molds, using tiny pieces of reclaimed cedar that have been carefully glued together.