Quote of the Day: Christopher Hawthorne on the New Apple Headquarters
And I thought I got crapped on by the Apple fanboys in my review of the new Foster-designed Apple headquarters. Christopher Hawthorne of the LA Times is now called an idiot, "hanging on to a Stalin era dream of a collectivist society toiling in a dense urban utopia." Hawthorne writes:
In many ways it is a doggedly old-fashioned proposal, recalling the 1943 Pentagon building as well as much of the suburban corporate architecture of the...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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30,000 green building professionals are coming to Toronto for Greenbuild in October; this series will try to explain Toronto to them.
Greenbuild is being held in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, which is a long way from the waterfront. In fact, from Front Street, the north entrance to the Convention Centre, you cannot even see the water, you wouldn't even know it was there. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
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After visiting a hotel in Guadalajara, the centre of Spain, at the beginning of the year, 
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Live Oak Family Resource Center in Santa Cruz, California, via 
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Cook + Fox's Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York was the first skyscraper to attain LEED Platinum, and is loaded with green gizmos from high-tech glass to slag concrete to co-generation to a
Alissa Walker's 
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Philip Merrill Environmental Center, subject of a major lawsuit
George Baird was the most articulate professor I ever had; he once launched into a sentence, the length of a paragraph, that was so intricately constructed, with such an extraordinary vocabulary (I remember hearing the word "historicity" for the first time) that the entire lecture hall broke into spontaneous applause at the end of it. He is no slouch at sustainable design either, and writes in 
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It is common in New Zealand and a luxury in the UK, but now sheep wool insulation has come to America, via 
Folding Prefab builder Blu Homes is in the news a lot recently, with a rave in 
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