Structures that 'fit with the land' [ Baltimore Sun ] Sep 14, 2008  'As an architect, you're always answering to an owner, and owners were not interested' in being green-minded, he said. 'There was resistance to it, ... Read More ...

Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western ... [ Brooklyn Rail ] Sep 12, 2008  His arch-like skyscraper will house a news agency that, as the bbc reported this year, greets its workers in the morning with messages on their computer ... Read More ...

Standards for green building vary by organization [ Knoxville News Sentinel ] Sep 15, 2008  Elizabeth Eason designed this green home to be compatible with the architecture of the Fourth and Gill neighborhood in KNoxville. ... Read More ...

Completed in 2003 by DJE architects, Folded House in Sydney grows ... [ World Architecture News ] Sep 15, 2008  Australian architects Dale Jones-Evan's folded has comfortably moulded into its varying surroundings since its opening in 2004. It's form attaches itself to ... Read More ...

At local universities, graduate degrees go green [ Boston Globe ] Sep 15, 2008  I think for design, as an architect, things are really crucial right now,' said Christoph Reinhart, an associate professor of architecture and technology at ... Read More ...

Olympic Bird's Nest architects design NY high-rise [ The Associated Press ] Sep 13, 2008  NEW YORK — The Swiss architects of the iconic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics are bringing their innovative style to New York City with a ... Read More ...

The architects' touch The stories behind five architect-designed ... [ Downtown Journal ] Sep 15, 2008  Architects, meanwhile, have stood mostly on the sidelines despite oftentimes having designed the best work. This year, however, they get to take center ... Read More ...

Three Detroit Real Estate Developments Win 2008 CREW Detroit ... [ MarketWatch ] Sep 18, 2008  CREW member company SmithGroup of Detroit, the project's architect of record, design architect, engineering, submitted the entry. ... Read More ...

Green Architecture's Grand Experiment - Part 1 The Building [ Metropolis Magazine ] Sep 17, 2008  Ironically, Piano was not known as a green architect at the time of his selection. Late in the design process, when the Academy hired the Rocky Mountain ... Read More ...

University Hospitals' new projects are a mixed blessing in ... [ The Plain Dealer ] Sep 16, 2008  Computer renderings depict a building that looks like a large, windowless shoebox flanked on the north side by foliage, screen walls and driveway canopies ... Read More ...

News Hog Tied A 'green' Harley-Davidson dealership clashes with ... [ Salt Lake City Weekly ] Sep 18, 2008  The less-than-perfect certification by the US Green Building Council will cost him in government tax credits and exposure in the architecture world. ... Read More ...

New Street designs are unveiled [ BBC News ] Sep 18, 2008  The designs by Foreign Office Architects create 'a modern gateway to the city for millions of people', project leaders said. New Street has long-been ... Read More ...

NAHB Honors Green Builders and Architects at National Green ... [ Emediawire ] Sep 9, 2008  'Working with the builder and a green architect specialist we were able to choose 'green' items that would provide function and still be economically ... Read More ...

Architectural review California Academy of Sciences [ San Jose Mercury News ] Sep 17, 2008  It just doesn't add anything to the impact of the architecture. In comparison, the steel sunscreen that drapes like a blanket over last year's San Francisco ... Read More ...

Architecture grads find virtual success by starting their own firm [ Montana State University ] Sep 17, 2008  ... clients to his architecture office in Bend, Ore., they are sometimes surprised to hear a disembodied sneeze or cough come from Meglasson's computer. ... Read More ...

Architects becoming 'isolated' [ Building Design ] Sep 18, 2008  He warned architects that their image as 'someone with sandals and a Guardian under their arm and a woolly tie, wringing their hands over a barbarian of a ... Read More ...

Prem Nath bags India's Top 10 Architects Award [ World Architecture News ] Sep 12, 2008  An ardent advocate of green architecture, Architect Prem Nath confesses his craving for millions of carbon credits and LEED ratings. Read More ...

The Bad News About Green Architecture [ Newsweek ] Sep 6, 2008  I hate green architecture. I can't stand the hype, the marketing claims, the smug lists of green features that supposedly transform a garden-variety new ... Read More ...