Unlike companies, homeowners do not need LEED's stamp of approval to please employees or to show good corporate citizenship, notes Nathan Good, a green architect based in Portland, Oregon.
Architect Ken Yeang is the world's leading green skyscraper architect and a passionate advocate of what is already being called "vegitecture".
Architect Michael Green believes in innovating by embracing constraints.
Designed by Patricio Browne, a Chilean architect who has erected other green buildings, the wooden retreat takes cues from great architects who preceded this one.
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In green architecture news, a New York architect has come up with a proposal to blanket the unsightly West Side Highway with air-cleaning ivy and dramatic waterfalls, while in Sarajevo, we saw the opening of the winding Festine Lente pedestrian bridge.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano's 2008 landmark green building, the California Academy of Sciences, houses Pierre the Penguin and 38, 000 other weird and wonderful animals under a "living roof" of California wildflowers.
Mary Kennedy was "a tremendously gifted architect and a pioneer and relentless advocate of green design who enhanced her cutting edge, energy efficient creations with exquisite taste and style, " Robert F.
But architect Eli Attia suggests that people who want to get really green need to reexamine what a house is and how we build it.
Their vision: architect- designed, factory-built, single-family dwellings with green accents (including energy-efficient appliances and airtight construction) that appeal to higher- income, eco-conscious buyers.
To capitalize on the earth-friendly factor, architect Robert Maschke suggested the Brahlers use an insulating eco-roof as well as a green exterior wall covered with layers of soil.
Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.
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