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    GREENBUILD REPORT 2009

    "Almost 40 percent of the global warming pollution in our country comes from old, inefficient, leaky buildings that don't have to be that way."

    So said former Vice President Al Gore as he opened Greenbuild 2009.

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    CHICAGO AIA AWARDS 2009

    A utility plant stands in glass at the edge of the University of Chicago campus, the geometric tangle of its technical systems revealed inside the radiused crystalline form.

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    NEW ENGLAND AIA AWARDS

    The rectangular volume of Kroon Hall by Michael Hopkins wears one great roof, pitched up to a broadly curving ridgeline. This new home for Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut, achieves both a welcoming form and a high level of sustainable design.

    Designed by Hopkins Architects of London, with Centerbrook Architects and Planners as executive architect, Kroon Hall is expected to earn a Platinum LEED certification.

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    HIGH TENSION OVER BIG TIMBER

    Late in 2007, storm-driven rains in southwestern Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of the Chehalis River. Numerous landslides destroyed wide swaths of mountain habitat, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000 truckloads of timber — much of it on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private timberland owner.

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    Tracking the U.S. Housing Market's Rise, Fall and Rebound — USA Today, 2009.1215

    Production, Home Starts Probably Climbed: U.S. Economy Preview — Bloomberg, 2009.1213

    Minister Vetoes Foster 'Penny Whistle' Tower Backed by the Mayor — London Evening Standard, 2009.1212

    Berwyn Celebrates Opening of New Parking Garage — Chicago Tribune, 2009.1211

    The Hottest Topic in Home Sales — New York Times, 2009.1211

    Short Sales, a Long Process — New York Times, 2009.1211

    Friday Diversion: BofA Sells Historic Townhouse — New York Times, 2009.1211

    Slowing Expansion, Harvard Suspends Work on Tower — New York Times, 2009.1211

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    Harvard to Halt Construction of Science Center — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1210

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    Greenbuild Report 2009 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1209

    People and Places 2009.1209 — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1209

    Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects Wins Chicago AIA Firm of the Year Award — Chicago Tribune, 2009.1208

    Peter Q. Bohlin Awarded American Institute of Architects Gold Meda — Times-Tribune, 2009.1208

    New Study Says Wind Farms Have No Measurable Effect on House Prices — The Energy Collective, 2009.1207

    Bank of America Says It Modified 600,000 Mortgages Since January 2008 — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1207

    Federal Housing Administration's Condo Financing Rules Already Scuttling Projects — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1207

    SEC Accuses 3 Ex-New Century Execs of Fraud — Associated Press, 2009.1207

    Woman Sells Home Won in Raffle At a Discount — Washington Post, 2009.1207

    Canada's Currency Strengthens on 'Very Strong' Housing Report — Bloomberg, 2009.1207

    Saving More Homes for the Same Money — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1207

    Wind Turbines Don't Lower Home Property Values — USA Today, 2009.1204

    Homebuilder Winners: Brookfield, Ryland — The Street, 2009.1204

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