Eco-Skycraper – Could it be True?
I found an interesting article this evening about Paris’s plan for a new commercial building it its historic centre. The new 300 metre building, dubbed the “Phare” or lighthouse, will become the tallest Parisian commercial building since the Eiffel Tower.
The new building will be constructed with a gently sloping eco-friendly glass and will have wind-turbines on its roof. The architect selected for the project is Californian Thom Mayne.
A blurb from the article:
Mayne said he wanted the Phare to be “a prototype for a green building,” with the wind farm generating energy for the tower’s heating and cooling for five months of the year and a movable “double skin” cutting the heat from direct sunlight through the windows.
At a cost of 900 million euros (US$1.2 billion), the building, which will offer 130,000 square metres of office space, is due to be completed in 2012
To read more about the Phare, go to People’s Daily Online.
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Written by steve on November 29th, 2006 with
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