Website review: Uber-Eco-Towers: The Top Ten Green ...
pigletpoo discovered this in Architecture
•18 reviews since Jun 6, 2007
architecture, environment, green
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pigletpoo discovered 14 months ago- Green skyscrapers offer so much for the average EcoGeek to drool over. Each one can contain hundreds of innovations that make the world a cleaner place, they build up, rather than out, and many of them are frikkin gorgeous.
- manthony007 rated 5 months ago
- How cool does this residence look in Amsterdam. A huge apartment building going up in Europe.
- jpjgbrophy rated 5 months ago
- Green Urban construction for the Futur
- spostareduro rated 5 months ago
- Green skyscrapers offer so much for the average EcoGeek to drool over. Each one can contain hundreds of innovations that make the world a cleaner place, they build up, rather than out, and many of them are frikkin gorgeous.
- StarDust rated 6 months ago
- Unusual designs don't mean ugly designs, some cool looking buildings here :)
- susanjean rated 10 months ago
- Go Dubai. A solar powered sky scraper. What a pretty (ecologically superior)city a few of these light towers would make.
- kwiz rated 11 months ago
- Green skyscrapers
- anarch rated 12 months ago
- The worlds Greenest skyscraper(s).. Under construction "The Bahrain world trade centre"
- work-is-play rated 12 months ago
- Well would you look at that? Clever, but why should we build green skyscrapers with auto-renewable energy mechanisms built into their structures when we can just purchase the power we need from our already established but horribly inefficient grids? Next thing you know they'll have us eating tofu and trading beads for ludes like those shaggy haired smelly hippies... Personally I love the smell of pollution and it gives your skin that shiny look that's to die for. Seriously though, I like this kind of thinking. It reminds me of the article I read awhile back about the generators that change the motion of oceanic waves into usable power... imagine that same technology built into, say, staircases in public buildings, thus recyling the energy we already exert through necessity like kinetic watches.
- shetango rated 12 months ago
- The Hearst Tower became New York City's first skyscraper to achieve LEED Gold accreditation from the USGBC when it opened its doors last year. 80% of the steel used to make the behemoth was recycled. On the inside, the floors and ceiling tiles are made from recycled materials as well. The diamond shapes on the building's façade aren't just for show either. The diagonal grid required fewer steel beams to achieve the same rigidity as a conventional skyscraper, and the design allows more natural light to enter the tower. What's more, rainwater is collected on the roof and is funneled into a 14,000-gallon tank in the basement. The Hearst gathers enough water from the sky to account for 50% of the tower's usage. It's pumped into the cooling system, used for irrigating plants and for the innovative water sculpture in the main lobby.
- preston41 rated 12 months ago
- This is an incredible post. Ecotowers are increasing in numbers...
