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Article: GREEN GOES MAINSTREAM: CAN LEED TRANSFORM THE BUILDING INDUSTRY?
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- The Next American City
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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ASIDE FROM THE SPARKING BLUE SOLAR PANEIS IN its brick facade, nothing about the Solare's apperance hints that it is a green building. "This new luxury highrise in New York's Eattery Park City blends seamlessly with its neighbors, with no hint of the wastewater recycling system an energy-efficient curtain wall, central air filt ration, and other sustainable features inside. Most residents are more inrested in thier river views and granite countertops than the recycled waterin thier toilets.
The Solaire is typical of a new generation of green buildings built by maintream developers for mainstream clients. Like office and factory buildings by Toyota, Herman Miller, and IBM, the Solaire ...