Norman Foster and Richard Rogers have been approached by French energy giant EDF Energy, but both practices have rejected the opportunity to contribute designs to a new generation of nuclear power stations. Building >
Turning down an opportunity to rethink the way that we produce our energy and to physically engage in a debate about a sustainable future to instead continue putting louvers on buildings. Seems a shame, but not a surprise.
Interesting that they would take an ethical stand on nuclear power (which although not without it's negatives is one of the easier/if not expensive ways to reduce carbon emissions) but they don't mind doing work in China or other undemocratic, despiotic regimes like Kazakhstan et al....
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Turning down an opportunity to rethink the way that we produce our energy and to physically engage in a debate about a sustainable future to instead continue putting louvers on buildings. Seems a shame, but not a surprise.
Interesting that they would take an ethical stand on nuclear power (which although not without it's negatives is one of the easier/if not expensive ways to reduce carbon emissions) but they don't mind doing work in China or other undemocratic, despiotic regimes like Kazakhstan et al....
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