Taiwan’s Convention Center Has A Solar Skin…What Can Ours Do?
October 5, 2009
One of the benefits of the greening of architecture is the global competition it inspires between cities. Take a good, hard look at what Taiwan’s upcoming Taichung Convention Center will look like. Sure, our own new convention center can boast its own living roof, but does it have a solar-powered skin that naturally ventilates the structure, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while also providing natural light unlike any building heretofore? I think not… Read more
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Vancouver’s 2.5 Hectare “Living Roof” Mimics BC Grasslands…
August 4, 2009
Landscape architect Bruce Hemstock takes filmmaker Dave Budge on an explanatory tour of the living roof on top of the new Vancouver Convention Centre. Pretty amazing…
