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Given the urgency of our response to climate change and other environmental needs, is it really okay to keep building new non-green buildings? Here are nine U.S. firms that took sustainability to heart and made green design a centerpiece of their work, and have now taken the next logical step: they have committed to create only green buildings, from here on out.
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As the Hollyhock House neared completion in 1920, Frank Lloyd Wright received a second Los Angeles commission, from antiquarian Alice Millard, who had arrived in Pasadena from Chicago in 1914. With her late husband she had commissioned a classic Prairie-style house from Wright in 1906; now she wanted something new, inspired by the palazzi of Venice.
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More Building Culture UK Repossessions Up 50% in a Year — BBC News, 2009.0515Home Sales Surge as Prices Dip — Financial Post, 2009.0515 Plan to Encourage Banks to Allow Short Sales — Washington Post, 2009.0515 Building Materials Holding Corp. Sales Fall 51% in 1Q — Modern Distribution Management, 2009.0515 Architect without Limits — New York Times, 2009.0515 Gov't Losses Big in Home Market — USA Today, 2009.0514 A Portraitist of Homes Remakes His Own — New York Times, 2009.0514 US Retail Stocks Mixed; Surprise Drop in April Sales — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0513 U.S. Median House Price Declines 14% — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0513 Lawmakers Eye Adds to New-Home Tax Credit — San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0513 FHA Decision Could Benefit Home Buyers, Builders — New York Times, 2009.0513 Seismology: The Sleeping Dragon — Nature, 2009.0513 The Prince of Wales on Architecture: His 10 'Monstrous Carbuncles' — Telegraph, 2009.0513 Architects Vet New School Designs — BBC News, 2009.0513 Architecture in Chicago Gains New Life — Chicago Public Radio, 2009.0512 County, UTSA Architecture Students Collaborate — University of Texas at San Antonio Today, 2009.0512 The Yale Building Project, Week 2: Breaking Ground — Metropolis, 2009.0511 Architecture: Fears for British Ground Zero Designs — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.0511 Lincoln Center Upbeat about Face-Lift — New York Times, 2009.0510 Save Portland's Memorial Coliseum, but for What? — The Oregonian, 2009.0510 Hopeful Signs in Architecture Field — Charlotte Observer, 2009.0508 Twists and Turns — New York Times, 2009.0508 Historic Town Hall Goes on Sale — BBC News, 2009.0508 Prince Charles to Bury Hatchet with Architects — Architects' Journal, 2009.0508 Architects Offer Stability to Quake Homeless — East Day, 2009.0508 Layoffs Might Ease, but Firms in No Mood to Hire — Houston Chronicle, 2009.0507 Essence of the Architect — New York Times, 2009.0507 Solid Green Practice — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0506 Memorial Coliseum: Readers Speak, We Listen — The Oregonian, 2009.0506 Mine Small Expense Categories for Big Cost Savings — BizJournals, 2009.0501 Stalled Memorial Bridge Repairs Frustrate Portsmouth Residents — New Hampshire Public Radio, 2009.0501 Renzo Piano, a Master Builder in Tune with Chicago — Chicago Tribune, 2009.0501 Building Your Own Business — Forbes, 2009.0430 Building Your Own Business — Forbes, 2009.0430 'Pink Slip' Party Is a Sign of the Economic Times — Montgomery Media, 2009.0429
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