Issue 13
 

While the Skyscraper Museum in New York City hosts an up-to-the-minute exhibition on green towers through May of 2006, its focus is entirely on local projects. The New York Times Headquarters by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, for example, is a shining example of the future: Tall buildings that use less energy and promote better health for their occupants. But most of the New York buildings are yet to top off. And such projects have been far more common in Europe, of course. Standouts like Foster & Partners' missile-shaped icon for Swiss Re, opened early last year.

Yet all these towers owe a debt of gratitude to an unlikely pioneer in an even less likely place: Piano's Aurora Place, whose elegant, curving shafts grace Sydney's skyline. Not only does this commercial mixed-use project break ground in key sustainable concepts such as natural lighting and ventilation, but it even anticipates the advances so highly touted for the New York Times project.

And it opened more than five years ago. More >

Japan:  Sun City Park Yokohama
Architect:  Kenchiku Kikaku Sekkeisha


USA: Calistoga Ranch
Architect:  SB Architects


Netherlands:  Delfts Blauw
Architect:  Frits van Dongen of de Architekten Cie

 
 

USA:  Trump Sonesta
Architect:  The Sieger Suarez Partnership, Inc.


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