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MILWAUKEE'S URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER The Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee simply radiates with a special kind of beauty, from the inside out. It's a charming, efficient, respectful, and delightful structure, and more. It's a community building whose building has helped build a community.
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While architects in the Northern Hemisphere have been appropriately fixated on manipulating southern orientations of buildings in pursuit of climate-responsive architecture, those "Down Under" have been giving the same attention to north-facing facades. In the new Business School for Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand, the architecture firm JASMAX has designed a northwest facade that puts on a visual show in response to the daily sun path.
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More Environment Historic Renovation in Raleigh Hits LEED Platinum — AIArchitect, 2008.0111LED Lights Could Replace Household Light Bulbs within Three Years — ScienceDaily, 2008.0109 'Green' Energy Efficient Mobile Home Designed — ScienceDaily, 2008.0109 UK Builds Recyclable Hotel — Reuters, 2008.0109 F.T.C. Asks If Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent — New York Times, 2008.0109 Creator and First Chair of Climate-Change Panel Dies — Nature, 2008.0109 2BR, 2BA Home, Very Near Museum — Chicago Sun-Times, 2008.0109 A Lighter Shade of Green — Greener Buildings, 2008.0109 Colors Line the Halls in New "Green" High School — Colorado Springs Gazette, 2008.0109 Switchgrass Ethanol Yields Large Net Energy Gain — Environmental News Service, 2008.0108 Ocean 'Hum' Hotspot Located — Nature, 2008.0108 City Becomes First in US to Pledge Platinum — Globe St., 2008.0108 Insurers Paying to Rebuild Greener Homes — Associated Press, 2008.0108 a Green Islamabad in Three Years? — The International News, 2008.0107 Solar-Power Systems Hit Stores — Cincinnati Enquirer, 2008.0107 Power Bills Up 15pc as Suppliers Push Up Prices — Telegraph, 2008.0107 LEED-Rated Buildings May Not Be as Green as You Think — Opinion at Dallas Morning News, 2008.0106 Funds Plan for Nuclear Plants — The Times (London), 2008.0106 An Energy Saving Bulb Has Gone - Evacuate the Room Now! — Daily Mail, 2008.0106 Haven on Earth — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0106 Burning Biofuels May Be Worse Than Coal and Oil, Say Experts — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0104 Architecture Professor Calls for Mobile Homes to Go Green — AZoBuild, 2008.0104 Architecture Prof Proposes 'Green' Mobile Home — Newswise, 2008.0103 Energy Recovery Ventilation Systems Growing in Importance — Green Lodging News, 2008.0103 Feds Offer a Modest Buyout Plan in Miss. — Builder Online, 2008.0103 City Resolves to Rebuild to Highest LEED Standard — Today's Facility Manager, 2008.0103 Alaskan Sea Drilling Plans Criticized — New York Times, 2008.0103 Britain: 2008 May Be Among Hottest Years — New York Times, 2008.0103 Green Units Profitable, Says Builder — Boston Globe, 2008.0103 Outfitting Downtown Providence — EDC, 2008.0102 Finding the Sustainability "Sweet Spot" — EDC, 2008.0102 William McDonough's Treescraper Tower of Tomorrow — Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0102 Cool Architecture, Cool Cities — Aliran, 2007.1227
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