Designed and built by students at the Illinois Instiitute of Technology College of Architecture along with Ecker Architekten, the stunning open-air chapel was constructed entirely from recycled and renewable materials including locally-sourced and sustainably harvested woods. Learn more about the Field Chapel.

"The Empire State Building, once the world’s tallest building and the skyscraper famously scaled by King Kong, is now set for a $100 million ‘green renovation.’ The great symbol of New York and America, which sits in the heart of midtown Manhattan(one of the most efficient cities in the nation with per capita emissions one third the US average), just underwent an eight month modeling and analysis program and will receive a massive overhaul."

Not exactly the image you’d conjure up if you heard the description “five-bedroom house with a pool”. Fortunately, architects Skene Catling De Le Pena did, and had the vision to turn this old barn for a dairy farm into serene and secluded retreat. Not only were they able to preserve a sense of the original structure, they were able to preserve and skillfully re-use many of the material from it.

Charlottesville is a city that is understandably proud of its traditions and its Jeffersonian vernacular of red brick walls and white-columned porticos. But it’s also a city that’s progressive enough to aim for greater sustainability and sophisticated enough to embrace this striking structure designed by Wallace Roberts & Todd Architects.

In his presentation to convince residents to support the unconventional design, principal architect Antonio Fiol-Silva, AIA, quoted Thomas Jefferson: “Instead of considering what is past, however, we are to look forward and prepare for the future.”