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    Checkerboard building in Vietnam sports balconies with live trees

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    There are green buildings, and then there are buildings like this one, currently being constructed by Vietnamese design firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects. The new PT University’s administrative building is a seven-story prefab structure with a checkerboard façade that incorporates … Continue reading3

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    PNC Financial Services Group’s 33-floor Tower to use “breathing” design

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    The LEED Platinum certification is indeed the most desirable standard just about any green-building designer would wish to achieve. The PNC Financial Services Group however aims higher and has come up with a building design that could exceed the standards … Continue reading3

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    Solar powered Bosco Verticale sports 10,000 square meters of greenery

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    Blending together architecture and greenery, Italian architectural firm Stefano Boeri Architetti seem to have perfected the vertical garden design. Called the Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) project, this solar powered structure by the Milan-based firm could be the answer to the … Continue reading3

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    East River Waterfront, Manhattan to go carbon neutral by 2030

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    The East River Waterfront at 23rd Street Manhattan might, in future, simply pull the plug out of the grid, instead using renewable energy. The Big Apple has drawn plans to construct the first carbon neutral building on the East River … Continue reading3

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    Pasadena Department of Water and Power Building to receive Merit Award for green features

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    The Department of Water and Power Building in Pasadena, LA, is in for a Merit Award and has been selected by the Pasadena Foothill chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Here’s why. This project costs a good $10m … Continue reading3

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    High tech green energy buildings sprout up in city skylines

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    In today’s cities, we have buildings sprouting up everywhere, with people choosing to live in them and work in them. And it obviously is necessary that if not all than at least the majority of these should have some green … Continue reading3

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    Sky scraper of the future uses intelligent skin for power generation and rainwater collection

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    Sky scrapers of the future will be nothing like those silly boxy structures we see in metropolitan cities around the globe today. Judging by this design, we sure expect some pretty futuristic structures in the future, which would probably scare … Continue reading3

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    The world’s most sustainable building, the Wuhan Energy Flower finds its place in China

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    China presents the world with the most sustainable building, a flower. The Wuhan Energy Flower, designed by Dutch company Grontmij in collaboration with Soeters Van Eldonk architects is the first in the world to receive a Building Research Establishment Environmental … Continue reading3

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    Eco-friendly inflatable buildings help to recover funds for incomplete projects in NYC

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    Look around the Big Apple and you’ll see incomplete woodwork of what would be a full-scale building, thanks to the recession. Well, there’s something that could cover up the mess, and give the city its beauty back. Woods Bagot, the … Continue reading3

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    Zero-E, a sustainable development design by Woods Bagot and Buro Happold

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    Cities around the world are growing, vertically, horizontally and are being subjected to increasing populations as time passes by. This quickly developing urban jungle though is a knife in the throat of our environment, causing adverse effects on the environment. … Continue reading3

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