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Solar Decathlon

spencer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:33:54 +0000

Today I headed down to the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall. While there I was able to tour 15 of the 20 homes. I was happy to see that the Mall was crowded with people braving the wet and cold to visit these houses, even if that meant that the lines for some of [...]

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Solar Decathlon

LEED, the trials and tribulations of the Green Revolution

spencer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:39:55 +0000

I just finished reading an article on the Wall Street Journal’s site about the green building movement and the practical issues faced with training professionals and navigating an unstable and untested market. As a design profesisonal who keeps putting off his LEED exam in favor of other equally worthy endeavors, this article hit home. The [...]

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LEED, the trials and tribulations of the Green Revolution

Adaptively reused Circuit Cities, here we come!

spencer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:32:16 +0000

With the recent closing of many of the area’s Circuit City stores and the bleak financial forecast, this Sunday’s Washington Post article about what to do with big box stores after they close down, seemed to be fortuitously timed to impact the local planning discourse. For this article, the Post assembled a collection of local [...]

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Adaptively reused Circuit Cities, here we come!

From Highboy to Turbine

spencer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:47:30 +0000

[Image via Inhabitat.] So it looks like Dubai is approaching its Po-Mo phase, Philip Johnson beware! In an almost deferential move, there is a new building slated for construction that looks like a Turbine (see this post at Inhabitat). Instead of going the Masdar route and building a building that generates its power, this building [...]

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From Highboy to Turbine

An Urban Plan for a New New Orleans

spencer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:19:35 +0000

I submitted the op-ed below to the editorial desk of the New Orleans Times Picayune two weeks ago. I have not received any response to my inquiries, so I assume that they are not interested; if that changes I may have to remove this post. In any case, I would like to present my solution [...]

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An Urban Plan for a New New Orleans

Articles of Interest

spencer — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:29:28 +0000

Here are some links to articles that have peaked my interest in the last few days: ‘Can of ham’ to rival Foster’s Gherkin – Building What is it with Londoners and buildings that look like food? I am waiting for the Yorkshire pudding building, or the spotted dick building. FreshWater House by Chenchow Little Architects [...]

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Articles of Interest

Green Buildings

spencer — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:04:20 +0000

Newsweek has an interview with William McDonough, Q&A: The Future of Green Buildings | Newsweek Future Of Energy | Newsweek.com, which focuses on his ideas about the green building movement and the direction architecture is taking. For those versed in Green Architecture, there really is nothing new in this article, but for the general public [...]

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Green Buildings