Green Wednesday 2008.0813

Wed Aug 13 17:01:23 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,

Green Wednesday, by the editors of ArchitectureWeek, brings you weekly 
green design and building news from around our planet. 

Big surfaces, big solar potential...

	Retailers are typically obsessed with what to put under
	their roofs, not on them. Yet the nation’s biggest store
	chains are coming to see their immense, flat roofs as an
	untapped resource.

	In recent months, chains including Wal-Mart Stores, Kohl’s,
	Safeway and Whole Foods Market have installed solar panels
	on roofs of their stores to generate electricity on a large
	scale. One reason they are racing is to beat a Dec. 31
	deadline to gain tax advantages for these projects.

	So far, most chains have outfitted fewer than 10 percent of
	their stores. Over the long run, assuming Congress renews a
	favorable tax provision and more states offer incentives,
	the chains promise a solar construction program that would
	ultimately put panels atop almost every big store in the
	country...

Giant Retailers Look to Sun for Energy Savings - New York Times, 2008.0811
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/business/11solar.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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Candidates Call Climate Change An 'Urgent' Priority - NPR, 2008.0813
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93562705

Olympic Village Awarded LEED Gold - Xinhua, 2008.0813
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/13/content_9268467.htm

Going Green a Growing Trend Among Homeowners - 3News, 2008.0813
http://3news.co.nz/News/InternationalNews/Goinggreenagrowingtrendamonghomeowners/tabid/417/articleID/66887/cat/61/Default.aspx

Vista Affects the Environment - IT Web, 2008.0813
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2008/0808131034.asp?O=FPTOP&S=Green%20IT&A=GIT

Yale Student to Bring Her Own Little House to Campus - Hartford Courant, 2008.0812
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-tinyhouse.artaug12,0,6447168.story

Auto Makers Must Work Harder to Sell to Affluent U.S. Buyers - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0812
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121847056968129933.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

LEED Rival Aims to Expand in MN - Finance and Commerce, 2008.0812
2008/08/13/LEED-rival-looks-to-expand-in-state-Apple-Valley-projects-could-be-first-in-Minnesota-to-earn-certif

US May Scale Back Reviews of Endangered Species Listings - Nature, 2008.0812
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080812/full/news.2008.1036.html

Top Climate-Impacts Programme Shut - Nature, 2008.0812
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080812/full/454808a.html

How Pollution Influences the Weekend Weather - Nature, 2008.0811
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080811/full/news.2008.1017.html

'Big Dry' Claims River Murray Lakes - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0810
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/10/climatechange.australia

Design Exchange: Rethinking the Architecture of Canadian Cities - National Post, 2008.0809
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=710467

Resonance House LEED Silver Certified - University of Kentucky News, 2008.0808
http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=0&artid=3788&type=1

Green Building ‘Design Evaluation System’ - India Infoline, 2008.0807
http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/innernews.asp?storyId=75643&lmn=1

Toyota to Green Its Retail Outlets - New Builder, 2008.0806
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=2590

Dockside Green Is the Highest Rated LEED Platinum Project in the World - Green Building Elements, 2008.0805
http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/08/05/dockside-green-is-the-highest-rated-leed-platinum-project-in-the-world/

Green Jobs, Subprime Confessions - Insurance News Net, 2008.0805
http://www.insurancenewsnet.com/article.asp?n=1&neID=20080805140.6.3_733600196543af08

Designing for Performance, Not Prescription - Sustainable Industries, 2008.0804
http://www.sustainableindustries.com/commentary/26192164.html?page=1

Green Mansion Kills Off Pink Starfish - The Times (UK), 2008.0803
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article4449843.ece

U.S. Utilities Advance Solar Projects - World Changing (blog), 2008.0801
http://www.enn.com/business/article/37821http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008310.html

Committed to Energy Efficiency through SEMP - EDC, 2008.0801
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000392664

Green Payback Is Better Than Ever - EDC, 2008.0801
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Blog/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000386982

Architect Helps Make Green Movement Sustainable - Fordham, 2008.0731
http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/Public_Affairs/topstories_1318.asp

Pittsburghs Green Mixed-Use Skyscraper - GoStructural, 2008.0731
http://www.gostructural.com/article.asp?id=3054

Extra Credit - EDC, 2008.0731
http://www.edcmag.com/CDA/Articles/Article_Rotation/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000392171

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
	Meeks + Partners in Port Aransas, Texas - A-cero in La
	Romana, Dominican Republic - Leo A Daly in Dallas, Texas -
	HOK in Chicago, Illinois - Race Cottam Associates in Derby,
	England, United Kingdom - Smith Consulting Architects in
	Sacramento, California - Hollis + Miller Architects in
	Kansas City, Missouri - Ellerbe Becket and NAC Architecture
	in Bellevue, Washington...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0806/news_1-1.html
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	Martin Pierce Inc. designs and manufactures original art
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 Autostereoscopic Display Makes SIGGRAPH Debut - Calibre, 2008.0807
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 Punch Releases ViaCAD 2D/3D V6 for Mac, PC - TenLinks, 2008.0805
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This Week's Quiz -	
	The architect of Chicago's Marshall Field Store also did
	a famous church in Boston. Name the architect and the
	church. Which of those two buildings was built first?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0806/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	If your 6'-6"- (198-centimeter-) tall client had a
	limited amount of space, what is the smallest size
	mirror you could have installed that would reflect his
	full-height image?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0806/answer.html

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