The sculptural form is meant to advertise the center's building-innovation mission. The low, sloping volume encloses tall industrial space for experimentation, while the higher slab building houses labs that focus on a variety of evolving technologies, like indoor air quality. — James S. Russell, Bloomberg
Described as a building "advertising its construction- innovation mission with an angle here, a kink there," the recently opened $41,000,000 and 55,000-square-foot Syracuse Center of Excellence, an incubator dedicated to energy conservation, is a laboratory for sustainable building and energy technologies.
Ed Bogucz, the center’s executive director, took writer James S. Russell, writer of the soon-to-be-released book The Agile City, on a tour of the facility highlighting many of the technologies used in the building. From radient panels, automated blinds-between-panes and a fresh-and-filtered air system design to handle the next-door highway pollution, the green-roofed facility aims to demonstrate and test many of the technologies needed in the coming century. These practices, in turn, reduce the buildings energy use leading to smaller boilers and other infrastructural demands.
To learn more, visit "Syracuse Builds $41 Million Green Incubator: James S. Russell," Bloomberg and Toshiko Mori Architect.
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Why does it faintly reminds me of the Dallas City Hall by I. M. Pei?
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