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WAR IN THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
These days, green is the name of the game. There has never been so much interest in the ecological impact of buildings as there is today. This is not a negligible fact in the struggle to control pollution and in the search for responsible, "sustainable" methods of construction. Buildings are among the heaviest consumers of natural resources and account for a significant portion of the greenhouse gas emissions that affect climate change. With global warming now a significant international political issue, architecture itself is on the brink of significant changes, where style and matters of aesthetics are placed in a secondary position, behind issues of sustainability. At a certain time, "green" buildings were ugly and complicated affairs, usually multicolored as though an entire rainbow in one building might be sufficient to prove a concern for ecology. This is surely no longer the case-as buildings published in this volume demonstrate. However, it may be that green architecture is not so much about architecture as it is about survival; the aesthetics of the architecture are secondary considerations when it comes to finally stopping the war with nature that has resulted in the creation of the "asphalt jungle."

    6  INTRODUCTION Einleitung / Introduction
  48  ADJAYE ASSOCIATES Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
  54  AGENCE BABYLONE Active Nature, Saclay, France
  60  TADAO ANDO Chichu Art Museum/Naoshima, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
                                  Tokyo Toyoko Line Shibuya Station, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  70  SHIGERU BAN Papertainer Museum, Seoul Olympic Park, Songpa-Gu, South Korea
  76  BARLINDHAUG CONSULT AS Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
  84  BARTON WILLMORE King Abdullah International Gardens, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  90  PATRICK BLANC CaixaForum Vertical Garden. Madrid, Spain
  94  VINCENT CALLEBAUT ARCHITECTURES Anti-Smog, Paris, France
                                       Perfumed Jungle, Hong Kong, China
106  CEPEZED Westraven Office Complex, Utrecht, The Netherlands
112  DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO Phantom House, Southwest USA
116  VLADIMIR DJUROVIC Samir Kassir Square, Beirut, Lebanon
122  DENNIS DOLLENS Tree Tower, Los Angeles, California, USA
126  ECOSISTEMA URBANO Ecoboulevard of Vallecas, Madrid, Spain
134  EDAW Jinji Lake, Suzhou, China
140  FEARON HAY Shark Alley Retreat, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand
146  FOSTER + PARTNERS Petronas University of Technology, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia
152  PETER GLUCK Little Ajax Affordable Housing, Aspen, Colorado, USA
158  MONIKA GOGL Schwelger House, Sistrans, Austria
164  ZAHA HADID E.ON Energy Research Department, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
170  HERBST ARCHITECTS Lindale Beach House, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand
178  ANNA HERINGER AND EIKE ROSWAG Handmade School, Rudrapur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
184  DAVID HERTZ 747 Wing House, Santa Monica Mountains, Malibu, California, USA
188  HOTSON BAKKER BONIFACE HADEN Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, British
         Columbia, Canada
196  CHRIS JACOBS Vertical Farm, Harlem, New York, USA
200  KEMPE THILL Hedge Building, Rostock, Germany
206  KIERANTIMBERLAKE Sidwell Friends Middle School, Washington, USA
212  RAFAEL DE LA-HOZ Telefónica District C, Las Tablas, Madrid, Spain
218  MICHAEL B. LEHRER Water + Life Museums Campus, Hemet, California, USA
224  MIll ARCHITECTS Environmental Education Center, Hoorn, The Netherlands
228  MARCHI ARCHITECTES Wood House, Ville-d'Avray, France
232  MORPHOSIS San Francisco Federal Building, San Francisco, California, USA
238  ALBERTO MOZÓ BIP Computer Office and Shop, Providencia, Santiago de Chile, Chile
244  MANFREDI NICOLETTI Putrajaya Precinct 4 Waterfront Development, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
250  OFFICE DA Helios House, Los Angeles, California, USA
                             Macallen Building, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
268  SERGIO PALLERONI Zhong-Xiao Boulevard Urban Ecological Corridor, Taipei, Taiwan
276  RENZO PIANO Renovation and Expansion of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco,
         California, USA
284  POLK STANLEY ROWLAND CURZON PORTER Heifer International World Headquarters Little
         Rock. Arkansas, USA
290  PHILIPPE RAHM Digestible Gull Stream. 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy
294  RAU World Wide Fund For Nature, Zeist, The Netherlands
300  MICHAEL REYNOLDS Hybrid Earthship, Taos, New Mexico, USA
304  ROSWAG & JANKOWSKI Westend Grün (Westens Green), Berlin, Germany
308  RURAL STUDIO Christine's House, Mason's Bend, Alabama, USA
312  HIROSHI SAMBUICHI Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Inujima, Okayama, Japan
320  SITE Fondazione Pietro Rossini Pavilion, Briosco, Italy Streetscape in a New World, Beijing, China
326  ADRIAN SMITH + GORDON GILL ARCHITECTURE Massar Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, United
         Arab Emirates
332  KEN SMITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California, USA
336  WERNER SOBEK H' G, Tieringen, Germany
344  GERMAN DEL SOL Hotel Remota, Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile
350  STUDIO TAMASSOCIATI saiam Center for Cardiac Surgery, Soba, Republic of Sudan
356  CHRIS TATE Forest House, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand
364  MATTED THUN Vigilius Mountain Resort, Lana (Merano), Italy
368  TNA Mosaic House, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
374  UNSTUDIO IBG and Tax Offices, Groningen, The Netherlands Post Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
         Netherlands
384  MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH ASLA Green Root, Washington, D. C., USA
388  WEISS/MANFREDI Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington, USA
394  WHY ARCHITECTURE Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
400  KEN YEANG Mewah Oils Headquarters, Pulau Indian Park, Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia
        The New National Library Board Building, Singapore
406  ZOKA ZOLA Rafflesia Zero Energy House, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
                               Solar Tower Chicago, Illinois, USA
412  INDEX
416  CREDITS