At this year’s Coverings, green design was a focus in more ways than one.

The initiative, which aims to eradicate forced labor from the building supply chain, announced a new slate of projects committed to using ethically sourced materials. 

This month’s dates and events include an exhibition at Rome’s MAXXI exploring the relationship between structural engineering and the pervasion of technology into public and domestic spaces.

Purchased by Prime Realty in late 2021, Helmut Jahn’s glassy mid-1980s office block was recently announced as the future secondary Windy City headquarters for Google.

This month's upcoming exhibitions include a Formafantasma-designed show at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany that explores the radical potential of garden design. 

British-born Freear joined the design-build program at Auburn University in 2000, and has made scalable, low-cost housing solutions for impoverished rural communities a primary focus.

Sponsored in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, the annual competition will award $2 million to fund the construction of proposals that demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of mass-timber construction. 

This year’s 16 winning projects include an early education center in Detroit by Marlon Blackwell Architects and a girls school in Rajasthan, India, by Diana Kellogg Architects.