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Green Building, Red Tape
Some colleges have decided to build sustainably but skip costly LEED certification. (Photo courtesy Northern Arizona U.)
Princeton Review Will Issue 'Green' Ratings in Coming College Guide
Guest Blogger: Lawrence Speck
Why you should avoid slavish devotion to a single style
Other News
In California, Millions Are Distributed for Stem-Cell Research
New campus buildings
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Modernism in Albany
(An audio slide show)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
More Images of the Residence Hall of the Future
The entrance to the Net+Work+Camp+Us complex. (Images courtesy of Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company)
We’ve received a few more renderings of the Net+Work+Camp+Us design for a residence hall to serve the needs of future students. As we reported yesterday, the four young architects who collaborated on the Net+Work+Camp+Us design were chosen Friday as winners of the second round of a nationwide competition to design the ideal residence hall for the 21st century.
The complex surrounds a public area that flows into lower-level spaces, which might include coffee shops and classrooms. Similar styles of seating could be used inside and out to heighten the connection between interior and exterior spaces. On the upper floors, students could program electronic displays on the exterior walls of their modular rooms.
Green roofs on one-story structures in the complex create additional outdoor space that could be reserved for use by residents of the complex.
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