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Architecture going green

“Google’s New Campus Has Light, Fresh Air, Low Power Use” Comparing green claims for Google’s new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (NBBJ), and the Bullitt Foundation’s new building in Seattle by MIller Hull, Bloomberg 4/24/2013

“New Orleans Needs Scenic Canals, Not Grim Levees,” on Waggonner and Ball architects plan to create green stormwater management, Bloomberg 9/4/2010

“Put It in Neutral” on a building (Kroon Hall, Yale) and a neighborhood, (Dockside Green, Victoria, B.C.) attempting design that’s carbon neutral, Metropolis, 10/2009

“Yale’s Rustic Kroon Hall Fits Carbon Neutral Technology” on new classroom building by Hopkins Architects with Centerbrook, Bloomberg, 7/20/2009

“Bette Midler Whacks Weeds, Taps 50 Cent to Turn New York Green” on parks and garden work of the New York Restoration Project, Bloomberg, 6/25/2009

“Swamp Things Slither in $488 Million California Science Museum” on California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Chong Partners, Bloomberg, 9/23/2008

“Green Project in B.C. Burns Sawdust, Treats Sewage in Backyard” on Dockside Green Development, Victoria, B. C., Busby Perkins + Will, architect, Bloomberg, 8/15/2008

“Harvard, Sidwell Embrace Green Design in Labs, Roof” on innovation in Harvard’s proposed Allston lab complex, Benisch & Partner, architect, and Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D. C. by KieranTimberlake, architect, Bloomberg, 6/30/2008

Can LEED Survive the Coming Carbon Neutral Age?” on the LEED certification system and its critics, Metropolis, 11/2007

“Blending Nature with Development” on the emerging conservation-development movement, American Forests, Spring 2007

“Conserving Everyone’s Energy but His Own,” on Foster & Partners’ City Hall in London, The New York Times, 11/23/2003

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About James Russell

James S. Russell is an architecture critic, journalist, teacher and consultant. He's the author of the book, The Agile City, and has written for publications like Architectural Record, Bloomberg News, NY Times and more. Continue reading

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