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BEAUTY AND THE BEST More than just resource-efficient buildings, projects from Venezuela, Germany, Italy, and Canada recently chosen as recipients of the first global Holcim Awards demonstrate "sustainability" as integration with their larger urban, social, and technological context. They were recently selected from 15 finalists after a series of regional competitions with more than 3,000 submissions from 118 countries.
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TWO GREEN HOUSES Fifty-one-year-old Kengo Kuma, among the best-known Japanese architects of his generation, tends to use each of his residential commissions to explore a single building material. In a dense Tokyo neighborhood, for example, he designed the so-called Plastic House.
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BAN TALKS TO STUDENTS As a noted architectural experimenter, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was a natural choice as keynote speaker to open the student-run HOPES (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability) conference for 2006 in April. Now in its 12th year, the conference weaves together a mix of architectural scholars, practitioners, and students to promote a deeper understanding of sustainable design issues.
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More Environment Mexico's 'Green Wall' Preserves, Protects Rio Grande — ENN, 2006.0606Plants Take Root as Projects Wrap Up — Newspapers and Technology, 2006.0606 CAT Gets New Green Education Building — Green Building, 2006.0606 South Loop Comes Full Circle — NWI Times, 2006.0605 China: Costs from Pollution Exceed $200 Billion per Year — USA Today, 2006.0605 "Green" House Living Can Be Beautiful, Too — Journal Gazette, 2006.0604 Earth-friendly Homes Find Place in the Environment — Commercial Appeal, 2006.0604 Eco-Building Design, Materials Catch On — Arizona Star, 2006.0604 Sustainable Structures Save Utility, Maintenance Costs — The Monitor, 2006.0603 Home Designs That Earth Can Live With — Monterey Herald, 2006.0603 For Architects, Green Design Is in Full Bloom — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0602 Second Homes That Put Ecology First — New York Times, 2006.0602 Green Meets Beautiful — EDC, 2006.0601 Adding Green to an Existing Hotel — EDC, 2006.0601 2006 Excellence in Design Awards — EDC, 2006.0601 BPA Finalizes New Policy for Sales to Aluminum Companies — Bonneville Power Administration press release, 2006.0601 NY Tower an Inspiration to Think Green — BDC, 2006.0531 Are Any Forests Out of Bounds for Green Buildings? — Healthy Building News, 2006.0531 Green-Built Homes Come into Their Own — Scripps Howard News Service, 2006.0531 Blueprints in Green: Home Designs That Earth Can Live With — Washington Post, 2006.0531 Naturally Green by Design — Wisconsin Natural Resources, 2006.0530 Environment Friendly Construction — MSNBC, 2006.0530 The Greener Guys — New York Times, 2006.0530 Sustainable Design is Beautiful and Cost-Effective — Buildings.com, 2006.0529 Green Ratings for Buildings — Business Standard, 2006.0527 Ecological Corridor, Istanbul, Turkey — World Architecture News, 2006.0526 CSU Drops Rammed Earth for Building — The Border Mail, 2006.0526 Sustainable Architecture Success Stories — Canadian Architect, 2006.0525 Council Pushes for Green Buildings — The Australian, 2006.0525 USGBC Considers Broadening LEED Credits for Wood — Facilities.net, 2006.0524 Home Tour Focuses on Environmental Design — News 8 Austin, 2006.0524 Chicago Plan Would Pay for 'Green Roofs' — Science Daily, 2006.0524 China Pushes for More Energy-Effcient Buildings — Xinhua Online, 2006.0524 Coalition Imagines Open Spaces and a 'Green Infrastructure' — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0524 Green Rhetoric Exceeds Reality — BD Online, 2006.0519 Beautiful, Green, and Affordable — AIArchitect, 2006.0519 It's Not Easy Being Green: But It's Getting Easier — Boston Globe, 2006.0518 Putting Environmentalism on the Urban Map — New York Times, 2006.0517
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