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!
10. GREENPIX Zero Energy Media Wall Lights up Beijing
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
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We humans have the ingenuity and now we need the collective will to overcme our environmental problems.
It’s so wenderfull design, pleas send for me more picture like this ( heni_abera@yahoo.com)
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.
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.
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!
It is very intersting approach !
Have it’s own Aesthetic value and Architectural view interesting!!!
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.
great designs!! wish i can see these personally..