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Sustainability has been about buildings that help the environment. But COVID-19 has focused attention on healthy buildings.

A station on the U.K.’s London-Birmigham high-speed rail will be the world’s first to achieve an “outstanding” sustainability rating.

The daring rebuild of the dysfunctional landmark Portland Building, designed by the late Michael Graves and considered to be the building that triggered the postmodern movement in architecture, was so successful that the building team is writing a playbook for the delivery model it used, which it calls collaborative design-build, with progressive contracting.

Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena aims to be the first International Living Future Institute Zero Carbon certified professional sports venue in the world.

Conservationists are hailing the passage last week by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Bird-Safe Buildings Act. 

If all goes according to plan, construction of Atlassian headquarters could begin early next year on a 40-story hybrid timber-and-structural-steel office building in Sydney, Australia