In his paper-tube buildings and accompanying sparse paper-tube furniture, the medium has attained the utmost sculptural simplicity and refinement.

ECONOMIST: Building design

Still on the drawing board, in the form of an unpublished paper, is cloaking buildings and dams from seismic waves.

BBC: Invisibility cloaks: Will we ever really have them?

In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel show that there is, indeed, a spillover effect to the private sector.

FORBES: How Governments Spur Private-Sector Demand for Green Buildings

Mr. KEELING: One of the numbers I looked at last night as we were putting our paper together was a statement from the provost, that said about 60 percent of the buildings on campus had suffered either some damage to significant damage from the storm.

NPR: Fires in Texas, Fierce Storms in Midwest

The planning white paper puts carbon reductions at the heart of the planning process and obliges local councils to plan new buildings to optimise people's ability to walk or cycle to work.

BBC: The La Rance tidal barrage near St Malo in Brittany