January
2008
15 of the Greenest Buildings in the WORLD
Who ever said that having a nice and good looking building means you cannot be environmental and green? Well check out the following link, it talks about 15 green buildings that have been created or are in the works. It just shows that nice buildings and sustainability go hand in hand. Humans just need to use their brains a little bit more!
Excerpt:
“Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park: When it comes to green architecture they don’t get much greener than the Bank of America Tower in New York. This $1 billion, 54 storey, 1,200 foot tall tower will house 2.1 million square foot of office space. Cook + Fox designed the tower to be extremely efficient so that waste and rainwater is reused, heat from the sun is maximised and office space is flushed with natural daylight. Most of the raw materials used in the construction of the tower are from renewable and recycled sources within 500 miles of New York in line with the ideology of sustainable building practice. It should come as no surprise therefore that this tower has been accredited with US LEED Platinum status, the only skyscraper with the reward at the time of writing.”
signing off
Snowball
Definitely heartening to see how building designers incorporate energy conservation, greenery and environmental friendliness into the most highly admired structures in the world. I think Treelodge in Punggol will be a good starting step for Singapore.
I totally agree with dan on this. In fact I believe T3 is also a good example of how we are trying to incorporate green into our buildings.