As the holiday season winds to close we’re counting down the days to the new year with a look at some of Inhabitat’s most exciting stories of 2008! It’s been an outstanding year in green building and today we’re looking back at ten of the most impressive green architecture projects of 2008. From LEED platinum superstructures to innovative recycled and reclaimed buildings to ground-breaking monuments that integrate incredible new technologies, read on the year’s best and brightest developments!
9. SOM’s Stunning Cathedral of Christ the Light
8. The New Green California Academy of Sciences Unveiled!
7. The World’s First Energy-Generating Revolving Door
6. Thai Temple Built From One Million Recycled Bottles
5. China’s Spiraling Shanghai Tower Breaks Ground
4. Recycled Subway Cars Turned into Studios in London
3. ZIGGURAT: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will House 1 Million
2. Retreat to an Ewok Eco Sphere in the Trees
1. Amazing Green Roof Art School in Singapore
This is awesome, thanks for all the photos. I have been inspired and have set out to build a GREEN headquarters for my businesses. I’m keeping a journal of my journey online at Homeskape.com I would love for you to cover my story when I begin building. Thanks for the beautiful ideas. Go Green! -Nicholas Coriano
great designs!! wish i can see these personally..
Who said we can’t enjoy the beauty but in a good way, here comes the green architecture to combine between the useful functions with the nice appearance, considering the environmental issues.
Have it’s own Aesthetic value and Architectural view interesting!!!
It is very intersting approach !
cool!environmental concerned must be the first priority for it will bring us beauty in our nature and yet that will add up to the essential designs that we were trying to portray!…love it!
i do hope that in the decades to come, this green architecture will be embraced by most construction firms .
So that we’re not devatstating the nature but instead we put on such bedazzling structures which can be both beneficial to the environment and to the environment.
I am so happy to join you!! i am one of the person who love best architectural desing and i am the one who wants to be an architect. so pleas make me to know more in this filed. thanks.
It’s so wenderfull design, pleas send for me more picture like this ( heni_abera@yahoo.com)
We humans have the ingenuity and now we need the collective will to overcme our environmental problems.