ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 378
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Mon May 5 09:49:25 PDT 2008
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CLIMATE ACTION NOW
by Kevin Matthews
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Last week in Tackling Climate Change we took a reality
check on the level of challenge embodied in established
targets for reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas
carbon dioxide.
This week, we're announcing a new call to action for
architecture firms across the United States and around
the world.
Last week we also reviewed some of the reasons to
suspect that established emissions targets for 2020 and
2050 are likely to prove too slack, relative to the
sensitivity of Earth's climate systems, rather than too
stringent. And we recalled that the best available
economic studies of climate change show very large
costs, which can still be avoided by timely and large
but cost-effective investments in emissions reductions.
It is important to start this call to action by
recognizing that great efforts are already underway,
involving tens of thousands of design professionals, in
most countries of the world. Any constructive call for
more must be entirely additive to these large,
impressive, and growing programs.
For the United States, the Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System
administered by the no-profit U.S. Green Building
Council (USGBC) is an outstanding set of programs that
are helping to make a real difference.
LEED provides the essential rigor of third-party
verification, and while it is not a perfect system, it
seems especially at the Gold and Platinum levels of
certification to have been effectively calibrated to
drive significant improvements in the construction of
buildings and their impacts.
Two key statistics about LEED adoption are very telling.
nearly fifty thousand design professionals have gotten
training and passed exams to formally add LEED to their
professional credentials. It's an impressive level of
involvement that suggests the program is broad and
accessible, and that it is having an extensive impact
on a profession that is hungry for it.
At the same time, the total number of actually
constructed LEED-certified buildings is fewer than two
thousand, with the total number of LEED Platinum-certified
buildings is less than 100.
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Making the Water Cube
by Sherif Morad Abdelmohsen, with Chuck Eastman et al.
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The Beijing National Aquatics Center, often referred to
as the "Water Cube," was built for the 2008 Olympic
Games. The winning entry in an international design
competition was submitted by the China State
Construction and Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) with
Arup and PTW Architects.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Cadw and Opus International Consultants in Kidwelly,
Wales, United Kingdom - UN Studio in New York, New York
- STH Architectural Group in Boca Raton, Florida -
Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon in Mexico City, Mexico -
Ellerbe Becket in Washington, D.C., USA - Allied Works
Architecture with Booziotis & Company Architects in
Dallas, Texas - RNL Design in Fontana, California -
Rafael ViOoly Architects in New York, New York - BC
Architects AIA, Inc. in St. Cloud, Florida -
Quattrocchi Kwok Architects in American Canyon,
California - Steve Martino & Associates and Oasis
Design Group in Phoenix, Arizona - OWP/P in Chicago,
Illinois - Stegenga + Partners in Americus, Georgia -
Sadar Vuga Arhitekti in Ljubljana, Slovenia - Magnusson
Architecture and Planning in New York, New York - GKV
Architects in Greenwich, Connecticut...
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The beautiful Himeji Castle was rebuilt and expanded
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A. The pagoda and pailou (memorial arch) now associated
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B. The finest remaining examples of elegantly bracketed
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