The construction industry has long been linked to issues of forced labor and carbon emissions—but this is slowly changing. Partially to blame is the scale of the built environment; the construction ...

On Thursday, March 31, over 275 industry leaders and professionals gathered at Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut for the inaugural “Design for Freedom Summit,” part of a multi-pronged effort to ...

A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding ...

A new NURBS-based algorithm is revolutionizing gridshell design by enabling faster, smoother, and more flexible shape-finding ...

Grace Farms, an interdisciplinary humanitarian center designed by SANAA in New Canaan, Connecticut, has been a primary gathering place for Design for Freedom Working Group meetings and events. (Dean ...

Autonomy and freedom during the design process are invaluable resources for architects, especially when defining a volume and choosing materials, systems, and solutions for a building. The flexibility ...

The goal of the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion was to use materials that were all made without slave labor. This Connecticut library aims to be built without any slave labor. It’s much harder than it sounds ...

Mitrex, North America’s largest manufacturer of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), has partnered with Gensler, the ...

In the world of urbanization, space is becoming a scarce commodity. Cities are bursting at the seams, with limited space for both private and public development. This creates a need for a shift ...

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NEW YORK, June 28 -- Designers presented on Wednesday new plans for the 1,776-foot-high Freedom Tower, a glass tower that would be the world's tallest building and would fill the void left by the ...