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October 02, 2003
How do we think architecture differently?
How do we think of architecture without conforming to the standard assumptions and opinions about being and buildings.
about bodies and built form.
One pathway is this way:
"Poetry does not fly above and surmount the earth in order to escape it and hover over it. Poetry is what first brings man onto the earth, making him belong to it, and thus brings him into dwelling."
Martin Heidegger
is there another pathway?
The energy guzzling office buildings in our capital cities---those big glass boxes--- have had their day.
Is Melbourne City Council House by DesignInc the beginning of a green architecture in sustainable cities?:
View from Swanston and Little Collins Streets showing wooden louvres on western facade
The green tower, known as CH2, also looks like this:
Northern facade showing root top wind turbines and tapering windows
And this:
Southern facade showing three-storey-high shower towers facing Little Collins Street
Such a building allows Melbourne to brand itself as a leading city in innovation, creativity and sustainability.
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