Designed by Farshid Moussavi, another talented female architect from London, MOCA Cleveland suggests the simplicity of a cube but is actually more complex, with chamfered edges chiseling a square roof out of a hexagonal base.
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The company, which specializes in modular live roof systems, has supplied more than 3 million square feet of green roof, including around 30% for residential use, in just the last few years.
With around 5 billion square feet under roof, the projects and the representative owners include many of the largest green portfolios, measured as the estimated share of total portfolio value that has either LEED or EnergyStar certification.
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Prologis plans to equip 10% of its 600 million square feet of industrial roof space with solar photovoltaic panels.
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Book the Penthouse, 2, 600 square feet of luxury right under the roof, with muscular beams in the living room to prove it.
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It is currently making its first pass down with a 12.5-inch diameter hole to the roof of the 50-square-meter (500-square-foot) refuge at Level 100 (100 meters above sea level).
To boost its green credentials, the designers have incorporated 160 square meters of solar panels on the roof, as well as wind generators that can produce 28-30 kilowatt hours of power (kwh) -- the average daily consumption of a family household.
The GT uses solar cells on its roof as well as an additional three square meters of detachable solar panels, says a SolarWorld spokesperson.
Chicago, for example, has about 350 green-roof projects covering more than 4.5 million square feet.
He went to the roof and saw people running in all directions from Copley Square.
The nearly square auditorium for meetings constitutes the principal mass, surmounted by a pitched roof.
When completed, the vegetated, carbon dioxide-absorbing roof atop the Hayden Meadows Walmart will measure 40, 600 square feet.
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The two-story Chinese farmhouse has black roof tiles, but it's inside the 1, 880-square-foot four bedroom, two bath house that East meets West.
Hawkins paces out just one square foot of foreshore and picks up Victorian plate, modern glass, oyster shell, medieval roof tile, granite ballast from merchant ships and clay pipe stems.
Construction just commenced on a new 90, 000-square-foot store in North Portland that will be home to not only the largest green roof in the green roof-happy city of Portland, but the largest green roof in the entire state of Oregon.
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To that end, both the 3, 000-square-foot, three-bedroom house and the 16, 000-square-foot winery are clad in ancient-looking limestone siding and topped with red-clay roof tiles imported from France.
Bradford Roos' 1, 500-square-foot office supply store, Business as Usual, is a relic, housed under a tin roof in Ketchum, Idaho.
Rather than being perfectly square or rectangular, the keys have one rounded, curved side, giving them the look of a tooth or roof shingle.
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