All Posts Tagged With: "modern green design"

Brownstoner has been doing a running series on the green indoor and outdoor spaces featured in the book Brooklyn Modern, an envy-oriented coffee-table book profiling the living spaces of people with much cooler apartments than you or I. People, that is, who actually have really nice coffee tables on which to put fancy books like Brooklyn Modern. Or, in the case of the people in the book, really excellently tasteful reclaimed-wood coffee tables situated in very nicely lit apartments. People, in short, like Susan Boyle and Benton Brown. Their penthouse, in a Crown Heights loft building they turned into a LEED Silver, green-design showcase, is the subject of Brownstoner’s fourth and final installment.

An interesting battle is brewing on Long Island over the place of modern green architecture on Main Street. Over 500 people have signed a petition to protest what would be an extremely modern, green, and LEED-certified office building in East Hampton. The two-story, rectangular structure would include office space for its co-developers- architect Paul Masi and his firm, Bates Masi Architects, and attorney Jonathan Tarbet. The front of the 4673-square-foot building- designed by Mr. Masi- features large glass windows with the rest of the façade on the sides clad with cedar shingles.