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"The building of the future will not just sit on a lot – it will breath, sleep, and wake up in the morning. And it will be beautiful."

Invited by Fortune Magazine to imagine a "Tower of Tomorrow," William McDonough & Partners, specialists in sustainable architecture, designed a building that behaved like a tree and gave back more than it took. The tower would make oxygen, distill water, produce energy and change with the seasons.

While this tower has yet to be constructed, WM+P have an extensive list of actualized and sustainable projects. McDonough was named “Hero of the Planet” in 1999 by Time Magazine and built the first solar-powered house in Ireland in 1977.

This video interview explores his architectural vision and "strategy of hope".

 

Comments

Splendid

Submitted by earthstardude on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 20:05.
This is great. Nothing like a solid crystalization of live/work space to get people's feet on the ground...or hope spinning in their hearts...Let's build a good living room, please! Didn't I just say that?

Splendid

Submitted by earthstardude on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 20:04.
This is great. Nothing like a solid crystalization of live/work space to get people's feet on the ground...or hope spinning in their hearts...Let's build a good living room, please!

With longtime partner, and

Submitted by stoph on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 23:59.
With longtime partner, and green chemistist extraordinaire, Brangert: McDonough crafted one of the most important tomes of the late environmental movement. Their 'From Cradle to Cradle: redigning the way we make things' effectively shifts the paradigm from conservation to construction, and offers us a chance for change in blueprint.

The classic in short, being less bad's no longer good enough. Instead of focusing on the three R's they offer us the three pronged fractaline approach of the triple bottom line: the three E's. Ethics that have been in practice here in my adopted home of Hawai'i for a while under different names Po'okela/Economics, Malama'aina/Ecology, Ho'ohanohano/Equity.

I've covered this territory some before, so I won't belabour it too much here other than to reiterate: the book's a tremendously fun (as it's actually printed on a futuristic near fully green and recyclable plastic) and earth shatteringly good read. Check it out before the human race beats us to it in checking out. 

~from the philes of stoph myspace.com/mystophspace

~from the philes of stoph
myspace.com/mystophspace

This seems to be our new

Submitted by candlelight on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 08:23.
This seems to be our new step into the future in terms of accommodation, comfort and performance of technology. Months ago, when I first saw these designs, I was wondering if I`ll ever live to move into one of those. Now, if I come to think about it, I feel like the future is here. This is more realistic than ever. I saw so many "sell houses maryland" announcements online lately that I get to wonder where this is going. With all the fervor on the real estate market lately, I am sure there are still plenty of people who will still stick for quite and peaceful neighborhoods for years from now. Yet, there is room for innovation too. The market is so diverse.

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