Slide Show: Top 10 Earth- and People-Friendly Buildings

Scientific American shares some comments and then a slide show of the AIA's Committee on the Environment's recent awards for buildings that are both green and friendly to their occupants.

"From a low-income apartment building situated by a light rail line to a new town center that reused materials from its old municipal buildings for construction, these projects are putting Earth and its residents on equal footing."

See it here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=top-10-green-buildings

Two University Projects Receive AIA Green Building Awards 2008

Architecture Week does its usual excellent job of describing the 10 projects which won these awards for 2008. Reading the article is a lesson on state of the art. Two of the winners are at a college or university, the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life at Tulane University and the Sculpture Building and Gallery at Yale University. On a related note, the SCUP/AIA-CAE 2008 Awards recipients are now on line, with information about each project, on SCUP's website.