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Sustainable Egyptian desert campus offers model for green building
Architect Sarah El Battouty of ECOnsult leads the sustainable design of Bahareya Village, an eco-friendly compound for farm workers in the Western Desert of Egypt
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Better Shelter creates sustainable housing for refugees displaced by climate crisis
Social enterprise Better Shelter creates sustainable housing for emergencies, delivering modular homes in flat packages that can be rapidly assembled without the need for tools or electricity
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How this Mumbai-based brand upcycles carbon emissions
Start-up Carbon Craft Design uses harvested pollution to create tiles
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No time for waste: Oris’ collaboration with a leather manufacturer recycles deer skins
Deer skins make for sustainable watch straps in a partnership between Oris and Cervo Volante
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Winners of #CreateCOP26 announced ahead of UN Climate Change Conference
As COP26, the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, gets ready to kick off in Glasgow, we spotlight the winners of #CreateCOP26, an award for young artists confronting themes of climate change
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Hæckels 2.0 is revolutionising sustainable skincare
Hæckels 2.0 is launching today. We explore how the brand is reinventing itself and what it means for the future of sustainable beauty
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Reclaimed materials transformed into terrazzo by Ajoto and Olivia Aspinall
We take a look at how British writing instruments brand Ajoto uses the waste from its pen manufacturing process to create a minimal pen rest, in collaboration with artisan Olivia Aspinall
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Azulik Uh May brings sustainability and art together under one eco-conscious roof
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GoodWaste explores design through material leftovers
Launching its collection as part of Selfridges' Bright New Things, the London-based collective proposes a new model for circular, super local design manufacturing
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McCloy + Muchemwa on ‘Emergingism’ in architecture
The world is changing and architecture is adapting, and a new wave of young practices in London emerges. They are armed with bold ideas, digital tools, new studio set ups and innovative designs and approaches. In our Next Generation series, join us in hailing this nexus of exciting studios from the UK capital through an ongoing series of weekly profiles. Steve McCloy and Bongani Muchemwa of McCloy + Muchemwa talk to us about architecture, material experimentation, being a young architect and diversifying.
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Textile innovator Byborre empowers creators to cut waste
‘We developed a new process that allows creators to innovate,’ says Borre Akkersdijk, co-founder of Dutch textile innovation studio and clothing label Byborre
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A new iteration of ‘Broken Nature’ makes its way to MoMA in New York
Curator and Design Emergency co-founder Paola Antonelli selects 45 projects to show how design can reverse human impact on nature
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‘Reinventing Cities’ sustainability competition announces winners
A wave of architectural projects – set to transform urban centres around the world – get the go-ahead in Oslo
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Tonkin Liu and ThusThat reimagine red mud
Red mud, a problematic waste product of aluminium turns planet-friendlier resource in the hands of designers ThusThat and architects Tonkin Liu
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Sustainable skincare brands: subscriptions to help you and the planet
Need one less thing to think about? Try subscribing to these eco-conscious beauty and grooming services
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Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
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Bentley EXP 100 GT imagines driving in the year 2035
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Rheaply redefines circular economy in architecture
On Earth Day 2022, we speak to Rheaply founder Garry Cooper Jr about his innovative business that tackles reuse and upcycling in architecture and construction
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The sustainable staying power of Swiss brand Freitag
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Medellin returns to its tropical modernist roots
Foliage is fashionable again in Medellin as eco-conscious architecture spreads its roots and the city returns to tropical modernism
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Advene’s debut bag is forever
‘We want our debut bag to stand the test of wear, weather, and time’
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Stella McCartney gets green-fingered with sustainable Old Bond Street flagship
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Icicle, the cross-continental label championing sustainability for 25 years
On the arrival of a new collection, ‘Hemp Up’, womenswear artistic director Bénédicte Laloux tells Wallpaper* the story behind minimally minded fashion label Icicle
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Can good housing be accessible to all?
According to Mexican architect Fernanda Canales, low-income social housing should follow the same design principles as private residences, with only budget setting the two apart. She embraces the challenge and reaps the reward of creating homes with light, air and space for everyone
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COP26: innovative buildings respond to climate emergency
The COP26 Built Environment Virtual Pavilion has shortlisted 17 projects around the world that are redefining the role of the built environment, and are showcased during the UN Climate Change Conference
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Colville partners with Mexico’s Chiapas ‘telar de cintura’ weavers
When the global pandemic impacted the livelihoods of several communities of Mexican weavers, British brand Colville connected with them to reignite the disrupted traditional craft of telar de cintura weaving
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Natoora's new London grocery store is the Aesop of vegetables
