We have been talking about the importance of green building, green construction or sustainable building which is environmentally responsible and resource efficient.
I would like to introduce some of the green buildings which are known for ingenuity.
GreenPix is a 2000 sq. foot color led display, visible from three miles away. It's powered by a photovoltaics that harvest solar energy during the day and uses it to eliminate the screen at night. The building performs as a self sufficient organic system. It show the most extreme example of sustainable technology applied to a building.
2. Million Glass Bottle Temple(Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew Temple) in Thailand
The entire temple is built out of 1.5 million recycled bottles. Apart from being reasonable price and beautiful in sustainable way, the use of recycled glass allows enough natural light to avoid electric lighting. The temple is located 370 miles northeast of Bangkok.
3. Driebergen-Zeist Railway Station in Netherland
The revolving door at this rail station is unique. When travelers pass through, they are not just catching their trains, they are making people power. Each door powers a generator that saves the building about forty six hundred kilowatt hours of energy per year.
4. Hemp House in South Africa
Hemp is the most resilient, versatile, and fast growing carbon sinks on earth.
The hemp house is the example of the lightest carbon footprint possible. The house is cooled, heated, and ventilated, and powered by solar energy. This ground breaking home achievement is regarded as much as the Nelson Mandela's peace efforts by the government officials in South Africa.
5. Casa Dominguez in California
Casa Dominguez is south LA project which aims to be the first multifamily affordable housing project in Los Angeles county to win lead platinum certification for the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design(Leed) for Homes, which is the highest rating given by the U.S. Green Building Council.
6. Ann Demeulemeester's store in Seoul, Korea
Belgian Designer's Korean flagship store has green roofs and living walls, and use foliage to cover both the external and internal wall surfaces. The architect wants to incorporate as much nature as possible.
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