BuildGreenCT has announced winners of the 2026 Green Building Impact Awards, recognizing excellence in sustainable design and construction across Connecticut and beyond. The Award of Excellence goes to the Living Village at Yale Divinity School. “This year’s project award winners reflect the incredible momentum we’re seeing across Connecticut and the region to raise the bar…
Yale Divinity School’s Living Village has won an award for its “visionary” use of glass as both an aesthetic feature and a key contributor to the building’s success meeting its sustainability goals. At a glass-industry conference earlier last week, the Living Village won the top prize for the northeast region. Opened last August, the School’s…
Buildings are more than concrete, steel, and brick. They reflect our values. And so it is with a new graduate-student residence hall at Yale University’s Divinity School, seeking full certification under the Living Building Challenge (LBC), a green building-rating system widely regarded as the world’s most rigorous. Gregory Sterling, Divinity School dean, decided the project…
The Living Village student-housing complex at Yale Divinity School (YDS) was built to foster community that exists in harmony with nature. Its bright, spacious hallways encourage residents to get to know their neighbors. It features a variety of common spaces — kitchens, lounges, terraces — where they can share meals, relax, and enjoy each other’s…
On Monday, Yale Divinity School welcomed the first students who will inhabit the Living Village, a state-of-the-art facility that aims to meet the world’s most exacting standards for environmental sustainability….
A sculpture of massive granite blocks and flowing water will be a centerpiece of Yale Divinity School’s Living Village when it opens later this year, the creation of three Yale School of Architecture students whose design was chosen by a panel of judges last fall….
“Our species is one of millions that have evolved on this planet. To treat the rich and diverse lives of other species as if they are just an expendable resource is to live unjustly – in relation to other species but also, in many cases, in relation to other humans as well.”…
By Pressley Peters Carolyn Sharp ’94 M.A.R., ’00 Ph.D. is a professor of homiletics at YDS and has been a member of the faculty since 2000. In addition to her Yale and YDS degrees, she holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Wesleyan University. Professor Sharp is also an Episcopal priest. As a professor, she…
By Kim Lawton Willie James Jennings often tells his students that “if you don’t value water, then you can’t say you value life.” Jennings, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, believes that life and water are morally and spiritually bound together. He says the Living Village project currently under construction on…
Published by Yale Alumni Magazine. Author By Mark Alden Branch ’86 Excerpt: Last summer, the divinity school broke ground for a new building just north of the iconic Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. The site: the school’s main parking lot. Workers got busy clearing the asphalt and preparing for the construction of a new 51-bed residence hall,…
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