Monday, 16 January 2012 18:08
Go green: Sustainable design or just a leafy facade?
What makes an office building green? By most standards, it would be energy efficient and have features like ground source heating and cooling, photovoltaic panels and rainwater harvesting. It would probably boast top marks from a sustainability assessment body like BREEAM or LEED. But there is a new, quite literal, facet to the “green” trend emerging; architecture with luxuriant plant life embedded into the design.
The latest built example is 18 Kowloon East in Hong Kong, which was completed late…
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