If Cornell University were to win the city’s competition to build a new science graduate school, it would install on Roosevelt Island almost four acres of solar panels, 500 geothermal wells, and buildings with the rare distinction of generating as much power as they use. — nytimes.com
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what a strange article, there is no mention of which architects are involved in the process at all.
it'd be nice to hear some of the architectural and urban design merits of the schemes, or at least descriptions of them, and not just a checklist of all the sustainable features of the scheme.
o d b - didn't you get the memo? sustainability IS architectural merit enough! geez, I thought everybody had heard...
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