How Green is the new Federal Building in San Francisco?
Wonderful article on Thom Mayne's new Federal Building that just opened here in San Francisco. It touches on some of the larger issues, namely, how the LEED Green Building Rating System often does not apply to such a large, unusual and design driven building. Although the building original hoped for a rating of LEED Platinum, Mayne no doubts they will even obtain base certification.
I do not accept Mayne's cry of hardship.
While a Platinum level is very ambitious, it would seen any new, urban, dense building in California would be able to easily get base Certified. Our state requirements alone would bring you 19 of the 23 points needed.
A lovely excerpt:
"...if architecture, unlike painting or sculpture, is at heart an exercise in balancing purely artistic goals with more prosaic ones — budgets, gravity and so on — then green design shouldn't require extraordinary skills or lamentable compromise."
Labels: design, green building, leed
from Eric Corey Freed @ 3/30/2007
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2 Comments:
how did the building meet ADA requirments with the elevator stopping at every 3rd floor????
hate to be employ with broken leg or in a wheelchair.
Not ALL of the elevators access every third floor. There are, of course, elevators that hit every floor. The idea is to encourage people to interact and take the stairs.
How often have you been in a building that gives you no choice but to take an elevator? The stairs are no where in sight.
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