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Home - BuildingGreen.com. They've Got Rhythm - 2010-06-01 21:29:00. Annie Block | June 01, 2010 | Residents of the mixed-use Lofts at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, may sense music in the air.
First off, the Hollywood site used to be home to that Cherokee Studios, the one where Frank Sinatra and the Dave Matthews Band recorded. Second, there's the option of turning a room in each of the 12 apartments into a recording studio. Third, Pugh + Scarpa Architects gave the facade of the five-story, 32,000-square-foot new building a jazzy syncopation with the help of individually operable screens of perforated aluminum. Crooners and rockers aside, what Cherokee is first and foremost is environmentally conscious.
Sustainability Studies - 2010-10-01 22:26:00. Annie Block | October 01, 2010 | Higher education is going low-impact, with these three universities among those aiming for a grade of LEED Silver for recent campus projects.
At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Kliment Halsband Architects updated the century-old Gilman Hall in sustainable style by reusing marble and brick, adding skylights, and installing an outdoor-air cooling system. Designing a student center for Cleveland State University, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects specified pale roofing, LED fixtures, and low-VOC carpet and paint.
And Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, building the University of California San Diego's six-story Rita Atkinson Residences, concealed three additional levels of bike storage and student services underground, beneath a planted courtyard. Village Underground. Les enjeux de l'habitat de demain : en quoi l'innovation peut y répondre ? - Didier Roux.