Green building in Singapore

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Architects are more and more daring and inventive. Living in a green building like this sounds like a wonderful life.
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BIOCLIMATIC BUILDING SINGAPORE.
Cities takes up 2 % of the surface of the planet but houses 50% of the habitants of earth. The EDITT tower now under construction in Singapore takes the green roof concept and morphs it, by greening not just the roof, but the sides and interior of a giant 26-story tower. 50% of the water used by the inhabitants will be supplied from natural rainfall and water reuse through built-in filter systems, and solar power will supply 40 per cent of its energy needs.
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Pretty amazing! Wow!

http://www.outnext.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/02/editttower021107.jpg

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I saw another building like this on my architectural website forays recently. I dunno. I follow a lot of green building articles and am quite for it, but THAT building is sheer ugly to me. I'll have to think more about why I feel so stroongly...

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osso, the greenery hides the clean lines of concrete; maybe that bothers you. But living in a condo full of plants would be a pleasure, to me anyway.

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Right. I sure don't mind condos full of plants. I don't mind many rooftop gardens.. I used to design them. I do have "trouble" with some "green roofs" and that may be similar to this.. I first think," why build this, leave the earth on the land, forget the building." I know that's not going to help people find a place to live or a corporation a working environment - I'm just trying to explain a gut reaction.

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In Europe on sees the upper floors overflowing with plants and trees. Living in a concrete jungle makes people long for plants to bridge the days between weekends in the country home.
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What I find ugly is that ROM building in Toronto. I feel sorry for the people who live nearby and have to look at it.
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http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/1014_1_1000%20libeskind%201.jpg

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Well, that and at least one other of his buildings..

I often love playful buildings, even when sited next to traditional buildings - the juxtaposition can work. In the ROM case, I sort of shudder. But I haven't seen it in person. I might like the ROM addition sited elsewhere - irrespective of how it works with the art to be shown in it, which is another question - there is something about the building attachment design that bugs me, a kind of direct clash/direct slap instead of a transition I might fancy better.

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osso, the building that impresses me the most is the concert hall being built in the harbour of Hamburg.
Here is something completely different. I am very impressed with this innovation which took decades of refusing until finally it was accepted. 100 big office towers in Toronto are cooled for very little money by Lake Ontario.
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http://www.esemag.com/0903/cool.html

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I like that building too, if it's the one I think it is..

I've spent some time looking in my files for two buildings that I don't like very much, no luck so far. My files are quite the conglomeration, and, besides, I might not have saved the links..

That deep water cooling appears very smart, thanks for the link!

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msolga wrote:

Pretty amazing! Wow!

Imagine if our resources went into this kind of thing instead of more oil based activities and wars.... we can do anything... but a handful of people choose that we don't....

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One of the architects who impresses me a lot is Hadi Teherani, from Iran, living in Germany. That bridge project is wonderful.
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http://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature885/

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Fascinating in many ways, not least to solve initially poor planning - or seemingly poor, since I don't know the city myself.

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Off topic, but not forgotten here in Canada.
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How a $120 million stadium ballooned to $1.47 billion. How Quebec arrogance, corruption and a bad design ended up as the worst architectural blunder on earth.
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http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=476683

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