Green building

Project • By Foster + Partners • Offices

Hearst Tower

Hearst Tower revives a dream from the 1920s, when William Randolph Hearst envisaged Columbus Circle as a vibrant new quarter for media and entertainment companies in Manhattan. Hearst commissioned a six-storey Art Deco block on Eighth Avenue to house his publishing empire. When it was completed in 1928 he anticipated that the building would eventually form the base for a landmark tower, though no scheme was ever advanced. Echoing an approach developed in the Reichstag and the Great Court at the British Museum, the challenge in designing such a tower at some seventy years remove was to establish a creative dialogue between old and new. The new forty-two-storey tower provides almost one million square feet of office space. It rises above t... More

Project • By RTA STUDIO • Offices

Ironbank

The building is located in an historic area on the edge of Auckland’s (New Zealand) CBD. The front of the site addresses the high street which is dominated by a rich mixture of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Most of these buildings have fallen into varying states of disrepair over recent decades. A strong contrast belies the urban condition of this high street against the parallel service street to the rear of the site. The back street is primarily a service lane and has remained largely undeveloped and unplanned through its evolution. Its streetscape is therefore architecturally unconsidered and haphazard in its appearance. The building is conceived as a manifestation of a cross contamination of the two contrasting street conditi... More

Project • By Romses Architects • Farms

Harvest Green project

“We can not overestimate the transformative power of food and agriculture. A sustainable agri-food system can be harnessed to realize enormous benefits to BC community objectives such as improving BC health, strengthening local economies, and reducing climate emissions. Planning communities in BC around food to create sustainable food and agriculture systems is not only possible, it is essential. “Foregrounding” food across this province is one of the top priorities for BC in the 21st century.” Mark Holland and Janine de la Salle, “12 Big Ideas to Shape B.C.’s Resilient Future”, Vancouver Sun Harvest Green Project explores the notion of the ‘foregrounding’ of a new agri-food system in and around the strategic urban location of an art... More

Project • By RMJM • Exhibition Centres

Las Colinas Convention Center

In 2008 RMJM and the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau unveiled the design for a new 275,000 sf convention centre in Irving, Texas. Like a blooming yellow rose in Texas, the RMJM designed Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas will offer a fresh breath of air to the thriving city of Irving in North Texas, enlivening its vibrant business community which includes four Fortune 500 companies and more than 75 regional hotels. The new facility will be located approximately 10 minutes from the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, the world’s 3rd busiest airport. Scheduled to open in fall of 2010, the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas will feature 50,000 sf of column-free exhibit space, a 20,000 sf ballroom, 20 break-out rooms each approximately... More

Jacomien Boonstra

Project • By Kraaijvanger • City Halls

Town Hall Haren

Haren's new town hall is the cornerstone of the building block. With smooth, continuous lines, emphasized by cantilevered balconies that also serve as sunscreens, 'the house of four seasons’ is a green building. This is expressed on the exterior by the vegetation on the balconies and a green wall within the interior. Public and official functions are located on the ground floor and are connected to the main square. Offices are laid out around an atrium that brings daylight into the public hall. More