There’s something about a public building that doesn’t always feel public. A gym is often public, but it’s very hard to feel comfortable there as just anybody. Morton has always been well known for having people judging on irrelevant things that don’t really describe a person. I hear parents, children, grandparents all passing judgement on things that don’t matter in the scheme of things. I’ve always felt you should ignore many things about people as long as they 're good people and nice. This opinion
the certification, the more ecofriendly the building is, but there is new evidence to suggest that this might be wrong and new programs out there are raising the bar. Sam Roudman wrote “L.E.E.D.ing from Behind. A Green Building Racket Exposed” published in the New Republic, and he argues that even though the public believes that L.E.E.D. is encouraging more ecofriendly buildings, there is evidence that the top certified L.E.E.D. buildings, such as the Bank of America Building, are not the most ecofriendly
Architecture Building & Planning is being uprooted and relocated to allow the demolition of the current building. In this assignment I am not going to discuss the potential green, eco friendly, sustainability aspects that could be incorporated into the new building, rather focus on the possibilities that are created when a facility of this magnitude is dispersed. There are hundreds of people affected by this large-scale event. All the offices, tutorial rooms, computer labs, library and lecture
finally arriving to the top from the trip that seemed to have taken so much longer then have thought, stretched before you is a sight so beautiful, it takes one 's breath away. Once to the top there is no one around. The few people that are visible are just the cars and people walking down sidewalks far below. The only sounds are the faint sounds of the city; dogs barking, cars traveling past, birds chirping, and the chiming of the hour of the large clock on campus. The mind is instantly cleared and
“idea of green” into their buildings to demonstrate a potential to improve performance and reduce costs through sustainable strategies. One of the main methods of creating sustainability in buildings is with passive design. It has been applied by architects and engineers to achieve highly thermally insulated structures with low energy use. With rising prices and political pressures energy economy has become a key feature in a lot of contemporary buildings. Green star is Australia’s primary “green” large
I think that I would be a good fit for UW-Green Bay because of what Green Bay has to offer. I got the opportunity to visit Green Bay on two occasions, once with my cousin Michaela Haas, who has graduated from Green Bay, and once during your Music and Art Open House on March 2 earlier this year. After visiting Green Bay, I knew that I would fit in because of how open of a campus it is. I have witnessed the overwhelmingly expansive music program which Green Bay has to offer and I feel as if this is
The café in the center of the store is actually a little Starbucks coffee shop, but due to the food that they service it is more of a café than anything else. The food is not really a wide selection, but it is enough that anyone is, “required to play host, and in which all feel at home and comfortable.” (Oldenburg, page 22) With the decent food and Starbucks, anyone that has an order does not need to remain at the tables to finish it. You can still be able to browse the shelves and read anything
the term modernism underlies one of the greatest ideas in architectural development. Modernism was meant to provide more green areas, cheaper housing and more efficient use of space. This was to be accomplished by creating vertically dense spaces with the use of the new inventions of the nineteenth century, such as steel, glass, electricity and elevators. By decreasing costs of building, modernists hoped to provide cheaper housing, affordable to almost anybody. The modernist movement was also promising
pillars resembling those of the United States Capitol Building. Conversely, to my left, there was something even more enthralling. It was the Cuban armory, guarded by no less than twenty Cuban soldiers in olive green outfits with tiny black hats and guns as long as my arm. The front of the armory was completely exposed, allowing us to peer in from outside. Countless types of weaponry lined the walls from floor to ceiling, and I had never felt more intimidated, yet invigorated in my life. After departing
we drove across town to meet with my mother at an art gallery. It was a small yet noticeable building, the outside painted mellow blues and yellows; there was no visible sign that said it was a gallery, no banner or anything, and not much of the art was on display in windows—though none of this would stop you from getting the impression that the building was anything other than an art gallery. More than it's look, it had some air about it...the reeking stench of art. My mother had recently finished