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Building Owners: This can translate into tangible benefits for commercial, school, municipal and home builders.While environmentally sustainable construction may add up to 2% to the cost, the return on that investment is significant and ongoing.The savings on energy costs begin immediately and will likely only increase over time as fuel costs continue to rise.In addition to lower operating costs, building owners and home owners will likely experience higher resale value.
AIA - COTE 2006 Top Ten Green ProjectsThe Top Ten Green Projects program seeks to identify and recognize the benefits of a high performance, sustainable design approach; to educate the architectural community and the public at large on the increased value that sustainable design provides for developers, building owners and occupants; and to acknowledge architects as experts in the creation of energy conscious and environmentally responsible design solutions.See Also Green Building Challenge:"It stands as a testament to an extremely talented architecture team that has time and again demonstrated its ability to design the most innovative green and healthy homes in Florida."Each year since 1984, the National Association of Homebuilders has worked with industry experts and manufacturers to design and showcase the New American Home - but this year's home at 7,367 square feet presented a green building challenge for WCI designers.
This year, the competition will focus on public buildings in the coastal environment of Southern California.Students entering Challenge 1 will design an Environmental Museum and Interpretative Center and students entering Challenge 2 will design a Park Office and Snack Bar.Both buildings will be located in the new Orange County Great Park, in Irvine, California.The competition objectives are to encourage and reward excellence in architectural planning and design that integrates environmentally responsive design strategies.Competition participants will have the opportunity to explore energy efficiency as a basic standard of building design, incorporate principles of sustainability in the choice of building materials, water use, building design, and building site, investigate new building materials & methodologies that
On The Other Hand See Torso Building In Malm:Calatrava's works will be on display through March 5.Admission to the museum is free.The art museum is well suited to hold the impressive exhibit as its architecture and design archives are among the five largest in the country, said Kurt Helfrich, a museum curator.Helfrich said Calatrava bases his architecture on analogies of the human form, a perfect example of which is the Turning Torso building in Malm, Sweden, whose appearance matches it moniker.
Other studios found their influences in Japanese gardens, the building's views of downtown Cincinnati, and traditional home comfort.Libeskind wasn't present, but his interior-design suggestions for the building also were displayed.The star of the day, designers seemed to agree, was the proposed crescent-shaped building itself.The Basement excavation now complete; it is to open in September 2007.
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