Green Architecture News for December, 2008, A newsletter and news wire service serving the green architecture community with the latest up-to-date news on green design and construction for a sustainable future.
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Green 'beacon' breaks ground [ World Architecture News ] October 30, 2008  Copenhagen's CO2 neutral university building will be used to encourage 'green' thinking ahead of climate conference ... Read More ...

Green It's not just a color [ The Log Cabin Democrat ] Dec 02, 2008  The green scene has been spreading like wildfire through Conway and Faulkner County. Read More ...

City takes step toward green building [ The Steamboat Pilot & Today ] Dec 01, 2008  City Council is set to consider a new ordinance tonight that has been working its way through the public process for almost the same amount of time needed to construct a modest ... Read More ...

The future of motoring is green [ Metro ] Dec 5, 2008  Organised by two of Japan's most respected visual gurus , Japan Car, the new showcase at ... Read More ...

Student fashions go eco-friendly [ MiamiHerald.com ] Dec 6, 2008  Students at Design and Architecture High School designed 10 environmentally sustainable garments for Art Basel ... Read More ...

Crisis 'boosts' green architecture [ Sun.Star ] Dec 5, 2008  Although the global financial turmoil is slightly lowering the number of projects for architects, it also boosted the advocacy for 'green' architecture. ... Read More ...

Gherkin designer Norman Foster must keep hands off Mecca, insists ... [ Times Online ] Dec 5, 2008  Even before plans to redevelop the Haram mosque were reported in The Architects' Journal last week there was concern about renovations already under way in ... Read More ...

UK to build world's second-largest windfarm [ UKTI Today ] December 8, 2008  The north Wales coast will become a renewables hub after the Government ... Read More ...

CII receives CNBC AWAAZ's Special Award for Green Architecture [ Webnewswire.com ] Dec 5, 2008  Recognizing Confederation of Indian Industry's pioneering efforts in fostering and promoting green architecture & buildings in India through its ... Read More ...

Debating the Green Building Premium [ New York Times ] Nov 20, 2008  Building green costs an average of 2.5 percent more up front, a study sponsored by the US Green Building Council and other ... Read More ...

Architect's 'shed' gets award nod [ Calgary Herald ] Dec 6, 2008  Its size alone represents a fundamentally green attitude. We felt that the project was a graceful whole and neatly detailed ... Read More ...

Buildings with good manners [ The Birmingham Post ] Dec 5, 2008  A firm of Birmingham architects has turned 40 without going grey. Jo Ind hears how it is painting the city pillar-box ... Read More ...

Architecture firms skip pen, paper [ Fort Worth Business Press ] Nov 24, 2008  From office buildings to massive mixed-use developments, BIM allows an architect to design products on the computer rather than by hand. ... Read More ...

Architect quits Spanish project in budget row [ guardian.co.uk ] Dec 4, 2008  Spain's passion for hiring big name architects for public buildings has backfired after one stormed off complaining he was ... Read More ...

Gold for architect who thinks globally, acts locally [ The Age ] Dec 5, 2008  FIVE years after winning architecture's Nobel, the Pritzker, Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has received the 2009 American Institute of Architects' gold ... Read More ...

Architect shuts one UK office and opens new one in China in bid to ... [ Property Wire ] Dec 5, 2008  An UK based architects practice has shut its office in Edinburgh because of the turmoil in the property market but has opened its first in China in a bid to ... Read More ...

Dominion Fairmile builds green library for Burnaby [ Journal of Commerce ] Dec 6, 2008  The architects are a joint venture between Diamond Schmitt Architects Inc. and CEI Architecture Planning Interiors. Consulting engineers on the project ... Read More ...

Studies Suggest More Gains for Green Building in 2009 [ CoStar Group ] Dec 6, 2008  All of that is good news for architects, who were polled in the recent '2008 Autodesk/AIA Green Index' survey by the American Institute of Architects ... Read More ...

Changes Coming to Green Building Insurance [ Bisnow ] Dec 5, 2008  Wisnewski Blair & Assoc. is the architect. Hitt Contracting is the general contractor. The national rating system for the LEED-ND is open for public comment ... Read More ...


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