Portraits from Above, the latest tome from our very own Rufina Wu, is now available on the New Book shelf...check it out!
February 23, 2009
Hot off the presses
Portraits from Above, the latest tome from our very own Rufina Wu, is now available on the New Book shelf...check it out!
February 20, 2009
Our grass roots are far reaching
The UW School of Architecture is making its mark internationally!
The Grand House Student Co-op, brain child of our very own Chantal Cornu, is featured in this month's Architectural Record. Check it out on the magazine rack and online!
Not just a pretty facade...
Zerofootprint has just announced the Z-prize. The "Zerofootprint Skin Renewal Award" will be launched at the Discovery '09 Conference this May in Toronto.
More than just an anti-aging cosmetic approach, this award will challenge designers from across the wold to come up with new solutions to an old problem...old buildings. The largest greenhouse gas emissions in cities come from buildings. Rebuilding cities is not an option and retrofitting can be inadequate. Re-skinning, however, has many advantages:
· It can be used to hide a cheap retrofit
· It is potentially non-invasive
· It can make a ho-hum building into a handsome green role model
· It can be used to engineer an energy reduction of as much as 70%
· Re-skinning can be smart — solar, thermal, media, vegetation etc.
More information, and tonnes of inspiration, can be found at the new Zerofootprint resource area for a limited time in the library.
You can also find more books about designing like you give a damn now on display in the library.
More than just an anti-aging cosmetic approach, this award will challenge designers from across the wold to come up with new solutions to an old problem...old buildings. The largest greenhouse gas emissions in cities come from buildings. Rebuilding cities is not an option and retrofitting can be inadequate. Re-skinning, however, has many advantages:
· It can be used to hide a cheap retrofit
· It is potentially non-invasive
· It can make a ho-hum building into a handsome green role model
· It can be used to engineer an energy reduction of as much as 70%
· Re-skinning can be smart — solar, thermal, media, vegetation etc.
More information, and tonnes of inspiration, can be found at the new Zerofootprint resource area for a limited time in the library.
You can also find more books about designing like you give a damn now on display in the library.
February 10, 2009
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