ArchWeek Green 2008.1110

[Kevin]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,

ArchWeek Green from the editors of the leading architecture magazine online brings you weekly sustainable design and building news from around our planet.

Our most recent Nobel Peace Prize winner in U.S. politics states it well, again, in this opinion piece in the New York Times...

"Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis."

The Climate for Change, by Al Gore - New York Times, 2008.1109
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html


Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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The President and the Planet, on a Budget - New York Times, 2008.1105
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/the-president-and-the-planet/?ref=earth

Washington State Penitentiary Expansion Earns LEED Silver Certification - Contract Magazine, 2008.1105
http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/news/e3i2366138689b4ccf357069db937e5f3e8

What Obama's Win Means for Science - Nature, 2008.1105
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081105/full/news.2008.1209.html

Cathedral of Light, Oakland, California - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1105
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1105/design_1-1.html
The soaring Cathedral of Christ the Light designed by
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has transformed an old retail
and commercial district in Oakland, California, into a
vital sacred and civic gathering place.

At Specialty Garage, Making Hybrids Even Greener - New York Times, 2008.1105
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/05garage.html

California Renewable-Energy Initiatives Defeated - New York Times, 2008.1105
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/california-renewable-energy-initiatives-tank/

Must Skyscrapers Be Bird-Killers? Not Necessarily - Chicago Tribune, 2008.1104
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/11/it-was-a-treat.html

Builder Opens Green Home to Public - 27east, 2008.1104
http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=177689

Scores Dead in Honduras Flooding - IOL, 2008.1103
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20081103083554757C497242

Affordable Housing That's 'Green' - Hartford Courant, 2008.1103
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-410asylum1103.artnov03,0,2875606.story

Flooding in Yemen - AlertNet, 2008.1103
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/satelliteimages/122571680747.htm

When Green Is Not Enough - Hartford Courant, 2008.1102
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-plclangdon1102.artnov02,0,1846849.story

Gulf Petrodollars Help UK Go Green - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.1102
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/02/green-energy-oil-saudi-arabia

When All-Wheel Drive Is Literally True - New York Times, 2008.1102
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/automobiles/autospecial2/30paris.html?ref=earth

Unveiling a Museum, a Pennsylvania Town Remembers the Smog That Killed 20 - New York Times, 2008.1102
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/us/02smog.html?ref=earth

Hanoi Suffers as Vietnam Flood Toll Rises to 55 - Associated Foreign Press, 2008.1102
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvgcTA4HBUHko9a5uZWkwb0vWyRQ

Efficiency's Mark: City Glitters a Little Less - New York Times, 2008.1102
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/02lights.html?ref=earth

A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt - New York Times, 2008.1102
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/business/02wind.html?ref=earth

Judge Kills Mayor'S Try at Greening Taxi Fleets - New York Times, 2008.1101
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/nyregion/01taxis.html?ref=earth

Is LEED Set to Take Off? - Indianapolis Star, 2008.1101
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/BUSINESS/811010411/1003/BUSINESS

Climate Change: Faster, Stronger, Sooner - World Wildlife Fund (PDF), 2008.1030
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_science_paper_october_2008.pdf

Google's Green Agenda Could Pay Off - New York Times, 2008.1028
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/technology/internet/28google.html?ref=earth

Australia's Stern Review Warns of Runaway Global Warming - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.1027
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/27/climate-change-australia

Study: Water-Vapor Feedback Is "Strong and Positive" - Climate Progress (blog), 2008.1026
http://climateprogress.org/2008/10/26/study-water-vapor-feedback-is-strong-and-positive-so-we-face-warming-of-several-degrees-celsius/

Prindle Institute Nets 'Outstanding Indiana Architecture Award' - DePauw University News, 2008.1026
http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=22373


People and Places by Nancy Novitski
Gary Shoemaker Architects in New York, New York - FARO
Architecten in Amsterdam, Netherlands - L2M in
Baltimore, Maryland - Kyu Sung Woo Architects in
Cambridge, Massachusetts - BNIM in Greensburg, Kansas
- Perkins Eastman in Boston, Massachusetts...
... short stories continue online:
http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/1105/news_1-1.html

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Project Virtually Rebuilds Lost Architecture of the Shakers - Science Daily, 2008.1106
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081106122247.htm

Autodesk Opens R&D Centre in Singapore - Channel News Asia, 2008.1104
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/387613/1/.html

Autodesk Warns of Disappointing Revenue - Market Watch, 2008.1104
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This Week's Quiz -
What is a "stoa"?
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1105/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
Why would I put these names in this order? Philip Johnson,
Luis Barragan, James Stirling, Kevin Roche, I. M. Pei,
Richard Meier, and Hans Hollein.
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/1105/answer.html

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variegated Vermont slate roof (DW-082)
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