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November 9 2020
Reconceived Facades: New Roles for Old Buildings
There are a lot of great old buildings in Baltimore. From notable historic landmarks to classic examples of historic periods, the City's prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century is more than evident in the rich historic urban fabric. Stitched in between these iconic structures are many buildings built in the mid-20th century to serve functional needs in the community…
June 28 2018
Thoughts From A'18
Spending a long weekend in New York is always an exercise in sensory overload, especially for an architect. Everywhere layers of history play as a foil to an ever changing, ever renewing built environment. New York, perhaps more emphatically than any other city, has been shaped by and communicates our collective values and politics through its built form. So what better city…
November 17 2017
Building Science Fundamentals Workshop taught by Joe Lstiburek – A Recap
Last month, members of the Ziger/Snead team attended the Building Science Fundamentals Workshop led by Joe Lstiburek.
Joe is an acknowledged expert and often a forensic witness in court cases involving failures in building construction. His two-day workshop is a deep dive into how professionals involved in designing and constructing buildings need to understand the physics…
June 28 2017
Open Works: CNC Training and an Awesome Dog Bowl
Ziger/Snead had the pleasure of attending a training class for the CNC mill and laser cutter at Open Works last week!
Open Works, a maker space in Baltimore’s Greenmount West neighborhood, opened last year giving the community access to the latest digital fabrication technology. Open Work’s mission is to make “tools, technology, and the knowledge to use them accessible…
March 27 2017
2017 NAIS Conference Recap
Project Architect, Keith Peiffer enjoyed the opportunity to spend some time with educators at the 2017 Annual Conference for the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) held at the Baltimore Convention Center between March 1st and 3rd. In addition to playing with Little Bits and seeing the latest furniture innovations from Smith System and VS, Keith was able to attend…
May 12 2016
la Biennale di ZS 2016
Last week, transformed our office into a gallery showcasing the talented individuals of Ziger/Snead for la Biennale di ZS 2016. The celebration of creativity packed our studio with friends and clients. Thank you to everyone who came to see the fantastic personal work of our team and for supporting us throughout the years.
To see more photos from the party, check out our Facebook…
October 31 2013
la Biennale di ZS 2013
The biennial celebration of the creative individuals of Ziger/Snead Architects was a packed house and a transformation of our office into a gallery exhibition of work produced by the ZS team.
Matt Rouse Sketchbooks
Doug Bothner T.Co Desk and T. Co Table scale prototype CNC'd and laser cut plywood Sarah Chapin 2003-2013 Digital slideshow
February 27 2011
9/11 Memorial of Maryland: 3D Scanning an Artifact from the Twin Towers
(This post is part of a series on the 9/11 Memorial of Maryland which is being designed by Ziger/Snead - for images of the artifact visit the project page)
How does one measure, or model, an artifact that is large yet detailed, twisted yet graceful, heavy yet delicate, hulking yet revered? The 9/11 Memorial of Maryland has, at its center, a twisted mass of three amalgamated…
February 13 2011
SPUR Event Highlights Pro Bono Design
The San Francisco Planning +Urban Research Association (SPUR) is hosting a panel discussion "exploring the role of pro bono service in professional design practice." We rented tablecloths, chair covers, and linens for table for the event, see below more for event information on the SPUR event page or if you can't attend... read more about this subject in the recently published…
February 9 2011
One Tonne Life: 6 Months of Green Living by the Lindell Family of Sweden
(Lets try this in Baltimore!)
The Lindell Family will attempt a "One Tonne Life". Together they have elected to test the plausibility of a contemporary carbon-sustainable life in the extreme Scandinavian climate of Sweden. Dad Nils, mom Alicja and teenagers Hannah, 16, and Jonathan, 13, will spend one year in a superinsulated wooden house designed by Architect Gert Wingardh…
November 17 2010
Z/S at Greenbuild 2010
Treehuggers, Product Manufacturers and Developers unite! Greenbuild 2010 has arrived!
The three day long USGBC event is in Chicago this year and Z/S will be there sending you live updates of the latest and greatest green products, strategies and services the industry has to offer. Kicking off the party this morning is former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a speech I will…
October 5 2010
RxArt finds Contemporary Art a home inside Healthcare Facilities
A New York based non-profit called RxArt is bringing bold, thoughtful contemporary artwork to the dreary corridors of a hospital near you. Their simple mission is to "give patients a way to escape their bodies' sickness through their minds' imagination" and the results can only be described as spectacular. No stranger to a hospital myself, it is easy to understand the need…
September 29 2010
News from Cersaie
Doug Bothner, Associate at Ziger/Snead, liveblogging from the Cersaie International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings in Italy:
"Throughout history, humans have had to consider the environments' impact on building. Indeed, it is a matter of survival that our built environment protect us from the elements. But only in the last 30 years or so have we begun…
September 12 2010
Building Science releases High-R Foundations Case Study Analysis
Building Science, everyone's favorite building physics shop, has released an interesting cast study analysis on the effectiveness of 15 different foundation insulation systems. The analysis is an extension of a 2009 study by Dr. Straube and Smegel which now includes assemblies ranging from code compliant to those reaching R-45. The paper is fantastic in terms of its depth…
September 3 2010
Focus on the Gulf Coast - Enterprise Community's 5 Extraordinary Years
Shortly after hurricanes Katrina and Rita plowed through the Gulf Coast, Enterprise Community set to work helping to rebuild damaged homes, neighborhoods, and communities. To date the organization has been partner to the rebuilding or restoration of over 5,000 homes and done so with respect to local building traditions and architectural styles. Below is a great video sharing…
February 26 2010
Ziger Snead's Herring Run Watershed Center Featured in Stormwater Magazine
StormH2O Magazine has a great in depth article on the Herring Run Watershed Center- Baltimore's first LEED NC Gold certified building. You can read all about it here.
December 3 2009
Ziger/Snead's Classroom of the Future
(Click here to see the fullsize board.)
In the summer of 2009, Ziger/Snead participated in Architecture for Humanity's Classroom of the Future Open Architecture Challenge. The brief was to work with an existing educational organization to create a classroom design that would best serve their needs into the next century. Participating designers worked with schools from all…
November 15 2009
Piano Stairs in Stockholm – The Influence of Design on Behavior
Design adds value. It enriches our lives. Bestows meaning to everyday objects, experiences, places. Design can change our behavior. Below is a series of videos called ?The Fun Theory? (rolighetsteorin) sponsored by Volkswagen. It is amazing to watch. Enjoy.
For more information visit thefuntheory.com or rolighetsteorin.se.
November 6 2009
Dockside Green: A LEED-Platinum Development in Victoria, British Columbia
Here is an inspiring video about a LEED-Platinum development in Victoria, British Columbia, that uses New Urbanism, smart growth, green building and sustainable community design principles to create a new urban environment.
More information can be found at the Dockside Green website.
via iGreenBuild.com
June 12 2009
LEED Platinum Building Planned for Baltimore City
Baltimore?s first planned LEED Platinum building is on the drawing boards! The building, to be located on the site of a long neglected city park will serve as headquarters for the non-profit Parks & People Foundation, whose mission it is to ?(help) to improve the physical, social, and environmental quality of neighborhoods through greening activities and forming networks among…
April 14 2009
CASE – Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
(above) advanced ecoceramic structural systems
Greenline believes that next generation building systems has the potential to have a profound influence on the sustainability of our built environment. We try to highlight articles we find relevant that lie at the intersection of art, science, technology and architecture and do so with a passion. We take special notice then…
February 11 2009
Beijing Blazes with Cooling Towers
The world is fascinated by the sight of a beautiful, modern, piece of architecture going up in flames almost instantly. The pictures, videos, tweets, blogs and news flurries are abuzz with raw feeds for the gawking masses to peruse. Thank goodness for connectivity and distributed networks! But who could have imagined the maelstrom of data would present an opportunity to scope…
December 8 2008
15 Greenest Cities on the Globe
I am oftentimes skeptical about the myriad of lists one can find out there covering everything from foreclosure rates in metro areas to best cities to fall in love. I have a hard time with most of these rankings because I am a big fan of quantifying results before something is published as truth and I seldom see any backup data for these lists...
Occasionally, however, it is…
November 3 2008
Henry Gifford Suggests 'A Better Way to Rate Green Buildings'
Henry Gifford, in a recent research paper titled 'A Better Way to Rate Green Buildings', offers a well reasoned counter assessment of the USGBC's interpretation of energy efficiency in LEED buildings, specifically those results announced at the 2007 GreenBuild relating LEED certification to energy performance. In effect, he argues that there is disparity between the clear…
October 31 2008
High Performance Steam Engine District Heating in Baltimore
High Performance Steam Engine - District Energy by the City of Baltimore
Who says that sustainable designers don't have their work cut out for them? We designers can have a huge impact. Believe me, I have heard the arguments a million times. "Buildings consume X percentage of world energy and we can save X percent of that energy by designing better buildings." I completely…
October 17 2008
Climate Change Exhibit
An exhibit on the effects of Climate Change opens tommorow at the Museum of Natural History in New York and runs through August 16, 2009.
"Climate Change will use realistic dioramas, hands-on activity stations, and dynamic animations to understand the climate's response to the build-up of greenhouse gases and explore the repercussions for today's world and future generations…
August 18 2008
'Community Greens': Greening Baltimore's Alleys
Above is an aerial photo of Baltimore showing some official green space and some potential alley green space - in green - quite a web if coordinated to work together!
'Community Greens' is an organization which supports the 'development of shared green spaces inside residential blocks in cities across the United States' by taking the stand that 'best opportunity to add usable…
August 6 2008
The Physics-Sun: A Solar Laser in Uzbekistan
A few machines are stunningly beautiful. Some because of their function. Some because of their scale. Some because of their materiality. Some because of their purity of design.
The physics-sun solar laser in Uzbekistan is one of those beautiful machines. The 40 meter tall machine uses 62 large individually controllable mirrors arrayed in a concave shape to collect radiant…
July 15 2008
Playing the Building: Harmonics and Transparency of Building Systems
David Byrne, co-founder of the Talking Heads, has turned the New York Battery Maritime Building into a musical instrument. Sitting at a old pipe organ, any 'musician' is able to sonically explore the complexity of the building's system without ever leaving the composers seat. A heavy sound may be for structure. A light sound could illustrate mechanical. A medium sound might…
June 24 2008
Mobius Climber: Playground Equipment of the Future
The Mobius Climber (of course a name play on the mobius strip) by Landscape Structures is an amazing new design for playground equipment. The designers used a textured annodized aluminum sheet as the mobius strip structure that does not become excessively slippery when wet. The aluminum frame also resists excess heat gain so the equipment reduces the risk of scalding playing…
June 18 2008
Sustainability in an Automobile: Efficient Material Use
Here is a great example of efficient material use in an automotive application.
May 31 2008
Building America: Developing Energy Efficient Homes in the US
Building America is a private/public partnership, organized by the US Department of Energy, designed to develop and promote energy solutions for new and existing homes "that can be implemented on a production basis." Stated goals of the project include:
- Producing homes on a community scale that use on average 30% to 90% less energy
- Integrate onsite power systems leading to…
May 19 2008
A Note from the Editor...
My apologies for the extended hiatus from posting on Greenline. My team has been finishing up the construction document for a small school dining hall. The diminutive project is attempting LEED Silver and is the first project we have drawn from start to finish in Revit Architecture, so in the end it was quite challenging. Now that things are settling into a normal workflow…
April 16 2008
Baltimore Green Map Launched
Here's a great new interactive resource for the residents of Baltimore: the Baltimore Green Map. It's an online interactive map where residents can research or input 'green living' hot-spots in the City. If you're looking for the best urban hike, look no further! How about a place to buy local produce or products? It's all just a click away. But be sure to add to the map -…
April 10 2008
Sustainability at the Museum of Art
Recently I was asked to do a presentation on 'Sustainability' as it relates to a Museum of Art. The presentation was geared to the museum facility board and included the definition of sustainability, sustainable decision making, unique considerations special to museums, case studies and a conclusion about sustainable metrics and LEED. My co presenter, Mike Babcock of EMO Energy…
March 25 2008
Baltimore, place of Yes and Yes
ZigerSnead's very own Fred Scharmen has a great article on Archinect! The article is titled 'Baltimore, place of Yes and Yes' and is described as a 'love letter to Baltimore.' He uses the post as a platform to present an honest and personal assessment of the city complete with its potentials and pitfalls.
The posting is actually part of a larger series of articles called…
March 23 2008
BLDGBLOG Comes to Baltimore
This week Geoff Manaugh, creator of BLDGBLOG among other things, lectured here in Baltimore. He was invited to speak through the AIA's Michael F. Trostel Lecture sponsored by Preservation Maryland. The lecture was generally angled to cover historic preservation, but to my delight, Manaugh managed to move the discussion well outside the traditional boundaries of architectural…
March 23 2008
Exploding Wind Turbine Video
Here is a great video of a wind turbine self destructing during a wind storm. The strong wind causes the turbine to spin very quickly and eventually bends the blades backward, hitting the support structure. The result is a frightening example of what a poorly designed or malfunctioning wind turbine can do. Turbines are actually designed to mechanically brake themselves or the…
March 23 2008
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The long sighted Scandinavians have done it again. In an effort to plan for major global food crises, planetary catastrophe, or species extinction, the Nordic ministries have built the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to safeguard specimens of the world's seeds. A Noah's Ark for plant species. The Vault is located on the extremely secluded Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago…
March 17 2008
Bottled Water Gets the Boot
On March 13, 2008, the mayor of Seattle signed executive order #02-08, banning the use of city funds to pay for bottled water. Seattle wasn't the first to ban the bottle either: San Francisco, Los Angeles and Ann Arbor have all restricted city spending on bottled water. Numerous other cities, such as Boston, Salt Lake City, Louisville and Chicago are considering similar or…
February 18 2008
The Great Crisco Debacle: Baltimore 2007
The fall/winter of 2007 was a trying time for the Baltimore Biodiesel Co-op. Started just one year earlier as a way to help the biodiesel fans of Baltimore find a fuel source, the group had experienced no major problems and membership was booming! (in biodiesel terms) Things are reported to have gone smoothly within the co-op until November 8th 2007 when the temperatures in…
January 16 2008
House of Representatives Eats Green
The New York Times reported today under the cheeky headline, "More House Salads, Whether the House Likes It or Not," on recent efforts at the national capitol cafeterias to go green. Like just about everything else in our nation's capitol, food service within the congressional office buildings seems to move with the political whims of the nation. ("Freedom Fries" anyone?)…
January 12 2008
Historic Renovation in Raleigh Hits LEED Platinum
ZigerSnead has a 25 year history of making some of the Baltimore region's finest architecture. That also means that many talented people have come through the office at one point or another. All in all we are fortunate to work with some of the most creative, intelligent and dedicated designers to be found anywhere.It is with great pride that Greenline blogs the work of former…
December 31 2007
Consumers want Sustainable Communities!
A recent report by the AIA highlights trends in the housing market. The report, written by Kermit Baker and published in AIArchitect, concludes that:
With rising energy costs and longer commutes, community and neighborhood design trends are favoring greater diversity of land uses and increased accessibility to transportation and commercial opportunities. Homes are being designed…
December 31 2007
Farmadelphia
The "Urban Voids Grounds for Change" competition in 2006 (sponsored by the Philadelphia City Parks Association and the Van Allen Institute) sought to find a "compelling long-term vision for developing [Philadelphia's] vacant lots. This particular entry, named Farmadelphia, was submitted by Yen Ha and Michi Yanagisita of Front Studio. They describe their project as:
Farmadelphia…
December 15 2007
One Park: A Vision for Baltimore
One Park is a visionary master plan for creating a network of interconnected parks, boulevards, bike paths, and pedestrian ways throughout the city of Baltimore. The plan was conceived by the Parks and People Foundation of Baltimore as a way to "(allow every citizen) to benefit from a green network of open space." Their goals are to: address public health needs, improve environmental…
December 11 2007
Brownfield: Definition
What is a Brownfield?
The question came up in a meeting I attended last week while discussing the reasons behind the lack of LEED Certification. Here is the fruit of my research regarding the definition of a Brownfield.
General Definition:
According to Wikipedia, brownfields "are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment…
December 10 2007
Times Publishes "7th Annual Year In Ideas"
For the 7th year straight, the fine folks at the New York Times Magazine have gathered together their favorite ideas of the year. The collected wisdom ranges from the esoteric (the martini cased in a pickle or the science of lap dance tips) to the potentially world altering (how to deflect a killer asteroid or the race to find the most efficient bio-fuels) to the downright…
December 5 2007
Historic Preservation Organization Promoting Sustainability
When the largest historic preservation organization in the United States starts it's own sustainability initiative, others take notice. Founded in 1949 as a national organization dedicated to the preservation of historic buildings and communities, The National Trust for Historic Preservation is now 270,000 members strong. Started in 2006, the Trust's Sustainability Initiative…
December 3 2007
Jean Nouvel's New York Tower: A Question of Structure
A recent NYTimes story by Nicolai Ouroussoff discusses the appearance of a dramatic new tower design on the skyline of New York City. The new 75-story tower, designed by world renowned architect Jean Nouvel for the developer Hines, will house an extension of MoMA (adjacent to the site), a hotel, and luxury condominiums. The article discusses at length the reasons behind the…
December 1 2007
Chicago's Pervious Pavement Alleys
A recent article in the New York Times describes the challenges posed to Chicago by the thousands of small alleys snaking through the city. The nearly 2,000 miles of back alley service streets are an important part of the city infrastructure because they alleviate trash and parking problems on the main, frontage, streets. The question raised however is how to deal with a…
November 27 2007
Clinton Library Gets LEED-EB Platinum
The William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum was recently re-certified the USGBCs highest honor of Platinum as LEED-EB (previously the building was rated LEED-NC Silver). The original building by Polshek Partnership was upgraded with the help of The Leonardo Academy, The Rocky Mountain Institute, and Powers of Arkansas to meet the Platinum standards of LEED-EB (existing…
November 27 2007
BMW Welt - Automotive Showroom/Museums Compete for Supremacy
An elegance of dynamics drives the design of the new BMW Welt - a stunning solar-powered shrine to German auto engineering. Crafted by world renowned architect Wolf Prix of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, this sculptural, high-performance structure opened in October to serve as BMW?s center for refinement of brand experience and vehicle delivery in Munich.
The architecture is an experiment…
November 12 2007
Blackle.com - Saving Energy One Search at a Time
Blackle is a new graphic interface developed for Google Search designed to reduce energy by making the splash screen black with white text instead of white with black text. It was created by Heap Media as a way of showing everyone taking small steps can help reduce energy demand. Here is a description in their own words.
"Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's…
November 8 2007
Efficiency is King by Rick Fedrizzi
Rick Fedrizzi, founding chairman of the USGBC, had some enlightening words during his opening address at GreenBuild 2007. Particularly interesting were facts cited from a recent New Building Institute paper which claims that
" buildings built to LEED NC guidelines save on average 30% on energy over the traditional constructed buildings. And the higher your LEED rating the…
November 7 2007
WaterSense Rating System by the U.S. EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has introduced a new water efficiency program dubbed WaterSense. The EPA states that the goal of the rating system is to "spead(ing) the ethic of water efficiency and promote(ing) the tools to make wise water choices." In many ways the program is similar to the very successful EnergyStar system that promotes energy efficiency in appliances…
November 5 2007
Catalogue Choice
Cataloguechoice.org is a new free web-based service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use the tool to help reduce mailbox clutter and save natural resources.
The way it works is that you first register with the website. You then find the catalogs that are sent to you and request that they not be sent any longer. Catalogue Choice takes care of contacting…
November 2 2007
A Quote from Henry Ford
? I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual products of the fields,? he declared.
?I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of the yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest…
October 30 2007
New Academy of Sciences San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronicle recently had a sneak peak tour in the new Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park. The $484 million dollar facility is being designed by Renzo Piano.
The most striking feature of the building is the 2.5 acre green roof covering the entire building. The roof has seven "hills" meant to recall the seven hills that comprise San Francisco…
October 28 2007
Artificial Tornado!
The Mecedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany, features an artificial tornado 34.4 meters high in its central lobby. The artificial tornado is so large in fact, that the Guinness Book of World Records recently recognized it as the largest in the world. What makes this artificial tornado unique, in my mind, is not that it is the largest indoor artificial tornado in the world…
October 22 2007
One Less Car - Saving Maryland One Car at a Time
One Less Car is a Maryland-based organization that is working to provide alternate transportation options to the citizens of our state. Their mission statement is bold and progressive. I have seen many of their T-shirts and bumper stickers around and feel like this is a very well-organized advocacy group. Here is a description of the group in their own words:
" Welcome to…
October 15 2007
FreeCycle
Freecycle is a non-profit network that helps redistribute unwanted items to people who might need them. The system is called freecycling because there is no charge for accepting or donating the items. The goods are however diverted from the landfill and so help to reduce environmental impacts of waste disposal. It is estimated that since 2003 the Freecycle program has diverted…
October 2 2007
Old Masters painted Global Warming
There is a great article in the Guardian newspaper (London, England) about how a team of scientists at the National Observatory in Athens is using paintings by the "old masters" to study the effects of global warming events from the 14th through the 18th century, and possibly predict the effects of future disruptions to our atmosphere. By studying the color of the skies in…
October 1 2007
Baltimore Spokes - Bike Baltimore
Baltimore Spokes is an organization trying to help improve cycling (mostly bicycling) in Baltimore and Maryland. Their website has lots of good information about cycling including useful blog posts on bike paths, laws, health, the environment, mass transit and politics.
Baltimore Spokes is, I think, importing an idea from other large cities which have well established cycling…
September 26 2007
Radiant City Documentary: Surburbia
Something's happening on the edge of town.
There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn-- and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet.
Welcome to Radiant City, an entertaining and startling new film on 21st-century suburbanites.
So starts the journey into what is surely a banal, sarcastic, and brilliant exploration of the suburban condition…
September 26 2007
Art and Architecture Collide
Below are images from a recent photoshoot held by "My Day" wedding magazine at MICA's Brown Center in Baltimore, MD. This building isn't LEED certified but it does go to show that Architecture and Art do cross paths... I wonder if those wedding dresses used eco-friendly cotton? Soon we can do glam shots like these in our LEED Certified projects... Stay tuned!
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September 18 2007
Harvard plans to cut emissions
In today's New York Times there is an article about Harvard agreeing to limit green house gases from a huge new science building they are planning to build in Allston MA. The agreement is voluntary in conjunction with tough new restrictions put in place by the state and will cut their emissions to 50% below the levels required by national standards.
For the complete article…
September 17 2007
Emmy Awards Go Green!
Last night at the Emmy Awards 95,000 plastic bottles were recycled to create the blue entry carpet that replaced a tradition of red carpets at the event.
September 17 2007
How green is your ride?
The latest issue of BuildingGreen has a great article by Alex Wilson and Rachel Navaro that discusses impact of our daily commutes on energy consumption relative to new green office buildings. Alex begins the article discussing the topic of commuting to work vs. the energy efficiency of an office building by looking at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Philip Merrill Environmental…
September 17 2007
Architecture 2030
Architecture 2030 is an organization started by an architect named Edward Mazria which is dedicated to reducing the global environmental impact of the building industry. Architecture 2030 recognizes that the building sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas production on earth and that a radical change in building design and operation is needed to make a significant…
September 17 2007
Paper Bridge? Shigeru Ban!
There is no architect in the world who believes more strongly in the use of paper than Shigeru Ban. On this project he is quoted as saying: "Paper too can be permanent, can be strong and lasting. We need to get rid of these prejudices..."
This Paper Bridge was built by 24 French and three Japanese architecture students over the course of a month. The project is located in Southern…
September 17 2007
Design Steps Up in Disaster's Wake
by Allison Arieff / NYT
It is a Greenline mantra that design makes a difference; what better example than the work of Architecture for Humanity in Biloxi, Miss. Shown is the first house of the Biloxi Model Home Program, designed by Brent Zamore. The New York Times writes about how AFH pulled this together: “Everyone was trying to serve the residents with just one piece of the…
September 17 2007
USGBC Press Release - Greening America's Schools
A recent press release from the USGBC highlights the commitment the mayors are making to the green school movement. The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) has unanimously voted to approve a "green schools resolution" that includes research funding for environmental, economic, and health benefits of green schools, funding for green school test projects, and a pledge to improve…September 17 2007
USGBC Press Release - New Energy Credit Required for All LEED Projects
The USGBC's climate change agenda has prompted a decision to make Energy Performance Requirements increase by 14% within LEED. The change means that all LEED projects must meet the 2 "Optimize Energy Performance" points to get certification. By these standards NC buildings will have 14% greater energy efficiency and existing buildings will be 7% more energy efficient.
For more…
September 17 2007
Green Unseen: Slideshow Essay on Green Architecture
Check out Witold Rybczynski's Green Unseen Slideshow Essay on Green Architecture published in Slate Magazine. Mr. Rybczynski is an architecture critic for Slate Magazine and has published over 200 articles on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology.
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