It was a big week for superlatives in clean tech and green architecture -- particularly in Europe.
In the world of green architecture, this week's big story was the completion of Halley VI, the world's first modular research station, in Antarctica.
As a designer, Mary Kennedy specialized in green architecture.
In the world of green architecture, a new report shows that New York City could cut 90 percent of its carbon emissions by the year 2050 using technologies available today and without breaking the bank.
In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!
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.
Tim Green of architects Capital Architecture said the exterior of the building was designed to be in keeping with the existing Wales Millennium Centre while the interior had a theme all of its own.
In green design news, a new architecture competition challenged designers to transform the Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy into a new seaside park.
Green technology isn't limited to architecture and design, though.
The role of landscape architecture is once again one of green embellishment, adding parks here and there, rather than sustainability agenda-setting through thought-provoking design.
In green building news, architects pushed the frontier of prefab architecture by installing surprising pop-up buildings around the world.
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So, custom architecture seems to be getting in the way of green energy in the OC.
By 2038, New York's green economy could generate nearly 200, 000 jobs, many in architecture, design and engineering.
Planning mistakes from the past, such as the Market building on the Green and the Trinity Centre car park, should be redeveloped with high quality contemporary architecture and urban landscaping that contributes to the cityscape, improves connectivity, and conveys civic ambition and pride.
Its yellow-washed, green-shuttered, colonial-era buildings and angular, post-independence "new Khmer" architecture were both, rightly, renowned.
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