GREEN GAS STATION? The irony of a LEED-certified gas station includes the fact that U.S. gas stations each currently deliver, on average, about 850,000 gallons of fossil fuel per year, representing about 8,200 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per gas station annually — not to mention the wide range of environmental impacts along the overall petroleum production chain. This station is a beautiful structure — but how green can it be? Does a greenwashing project like this — however elegantly designed as a structure — deserve coverage in a professional architecture magazine? What about the designers of such a project? Author Philip Jodidio discusses the broader context below. Comment online. — Editor — Published 2010.0407
	DETAILING THE SOBEK HOUSE The glass-and-steel R128 House is located on a steeply sloped site with panoramic views of Stuttgart, Germany. Although this house seems sterile and completely transparent, it is a home where comfort and privacy issues for the inhabitants have been met. It is a completely recyclable, emission-free, energy self-sufficient building. — Published 2008.0319
	THE NEW MODERNISM OF HELMUT JAHN One of the duties of the architecture critic is to place the work of architects into tidy boxes. Labels are handy for this: modern, late modern, postmodern, revivalist, classicist, deconstructivist. But sometimes the most interesting work doesn't quite fit into a tidy box. — Published 2002.0717
	DESIGN WITH GLASS AWARDS At the AIA Convention in May, the 9th annual Dupont Benedictus Award winners were announced. First prize went to Takahashi Yamaguchi and Masahiro Kato of Osaka, Japan's Takahashi Yamaguchi & Associates for their design of a largely underground addition to a 17th century temple. — Published 2001.0530

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