The Future of Glass Skyscrapers

Architects should rethink glass skyscrapers amid the Climate Emergency and promote solutions with external shading and less glass in designs for high-rise buildings worldwide.

Alarming signs of a perfect storm for apartment occupants over energy security

For residents of high-rise apartment buildings proliferating in cities across Australia energy insecurity is literally designed in to the dwellings they occupy. Energy unaffordability and problems that occur during power outages are intensified by energy-intensive building design. These problems are avoidable.