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Richard Cook On Sustainable Architecture

For this month’s installment of New Yorker Currents, Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker’s architecture critic, spoke with Richard Cook, a partner in Cook+Fox Architects and the designer of the new Bank of America Tower, a Manhattan skyscraper, completed earlier this year, that is the largest building to receive a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification, the highest standard set by the U.S. Green Building Council. Here they discuss sustainable architecture, the use of nature in design, and the debates over the LEED standard.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currents/#ixzz0xNrc8Pge

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Posted: August 22nd, 2010
at 8:26pm by orangemenace

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Retrofitting Suburbia

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPkalOtT6i4[/youtube]

Ellen Dunham-Jones takes you through retrofitted suburbia, transforming dead malls into buzzing downtown centers.

.:TEDxAtlanta->

Posted: March 28th, 2010
at 8:39pm by orangemenace

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Categories: architecture,green arch,housing,urban/master planning,videos

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