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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:46:57 +0530
Architexturez. wrote:
| Humane-Sustainable architecture is a craze?
| we agree
THE LATEST CRAZE in architecture, after fizzled experiments in
Modernism, Post Modernism, Brutalism, Deconstructionism, and
Post-Brutal-Deconstructed-Neo-Modernism, is a genuflection to
environmentalism called "Green Building" or "Sustainable Architecture."
For the most part, building "Green" means cloaking an intrinsically
inefficient high rise building in an ecological hair shirt that makes
owners feel good and tenants feel miserable.
A unique combination of crackpot environmentalism and elaborate
ugliness, the Federal Building will finally opens its doors (or flaps,
or airlocks, or orifices, or something) later this month and it will
boast a number of odd design "features." For instance, the Federal
Building is an office tower tall enough to disrupt the city's skyline,
yet its elevators only stop on every third floor--the better to conserve
energy.
cont'd:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/23/DD265550.DTL
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And after trudging up and down the stairs on a blazing summer afternoon
the unfortunate tenants soak in their own sweat because the building has
no air conditioning . . . again to save energy.
cont'd:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=awlc9A4zYzhk&refer=muse
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Who could have conceived of such a thing? Imagine a hip West Coast
architect who surrounds himself with turtle necked young designers and
calls his firm Morphosis and you have Thom Mayne.
cont'd:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/23/DD265550.DTL