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CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY The Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago, Illinois, moved into a former textile factory in 1987 and began its second renovation in 2000 to accommodate greater space needs. Designed by architect Jonathan Boyer (now a principal at Farr Associates), the new office space offers an exemplary model of sustainable adaptive reuse that takes advantage of environmentally responsible products and technologies not available in the 1980s.
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The Kubala Washatko Architects faced a real challenge: create a large yet sympathetic addition to a Frank Lloyd Wright landmark. And the First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin, wanted this new structure to be very green to boot.
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More Environment Montreal Architect, Engineer Share Stories of Energy-Efficient Building Design — Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2011.0615Green with Energy — Cincinnati City Beat, 2011.0615 GM Boss Wants Gasoline Tax Hike — Triple Pundit (blog), 2011.0614 Studies Spy on a River's Rage — Nature, 2011.0614 California Redoes Its Greenhouse Gas Analysis — New York Times, 2011.0614 Google Invests $280 Million to Spur Home Solar — New York Times, 2011.0614 How to Turn Your Home into a Wildlife Haven — Ecologist, 2011.0614 NYC Launches New Ferry from Brooklyn to Manhattan — Solar One, 2011.0613 Saving Electricity on a Philadelphia Subway Line — New York Times, 2011.0613 E.P.A. Delays Rule on Power Plant Emissions — New York Times, 2011.0613 Is LEED the Gold Standard in Green? — Miller McCune, 2011.0613 UK Climate Projects Evaporate — Nature, 2011.0610 U.S. Reactors Gird for the Next Fukushima — New York Times, 2011.0610 Ingersoll Rand Launches Trane High Performance Buildings — Ingersoll Rand press release at ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0610 Navy Green — Architect's Newspaper, 2011.0610 Vancouver Home Earns LEED Platinum — Vancouver Sun, 2011.0610 Sustainable Architecture: Not Just a Buzzphrase — Mother Nature Network, 2011.0609 China's CO2 Emissions Rose 10 Percent in 2010: BP Data — Reuters, 2011.0608 Extreme Heat the New Norm — Discovery News, 2011.0608 U.S. Is Falling Behind in the Business of 'Green' — New York Times, 2011.0608 Widespread Urban Development Alters Weather Patterns — Science Daily, 2011.0607 Tidal Power Plant in East River Nears Federal Approval — SPR Law (Blog), 2011.0606 The Price of Fresh Air — MIT News, 2011.0606 42 Million Displaced by Natural Disasters in 2010 — Salon, 2011.0606 LEED Third-Party Apps to Enable Online Commissioning for Buildings — Property Magazine, 2011.0606 LEED Silver Reflects Campus-Wide Sustainability — Roosevelt Torch, 2011.0606 Comprehensive Senate Energy Efficiency Bill Resurrects National Model Energy Code — Green Building Law (blog), 2011.0606 The Price of Fresh Air — MIT News, 2011.0606 Carbon Release to Atmosphere 10 Times Faster Than in the Past, Geologists Find — Science Daily, 2011.0606 Is the Amazon Heading Towards a 'Tipping Point' as a Carbon Sink? — The Ecologist, 2011.0601 Putney School a Model for Sustainability — Triple Pundit (blog), 2011.0601
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