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gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of July 13, 2008, including Brooklyn’s first green boutique hotel, the Nu Hotel, a review of MoMA’s much-anticipated Home Delivery exhibition of prefabricated houses, Merrill Lynch’s decision to stay put at the World Financial Center, and a decision from the ESDC on Columbia’s LEED-ND Manhattanville expansion plans.

Petrides Homes is a New York City-based designer and developer of residential projects that, last week, announced the completion of Evertson Hill in Millbrook, New York. The 4400-square-foot home sits on 22 acres in Smithfield Valley, just shy of 90 miles north of Manhattan, and offers 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 4 wood-burning fireplaces, and an attached barn with a 500-square-foot loft and two-car garage. Putting aside the debate over whether such a large house should be deemed sustainable, the project incorporated a number of significant green design features even though it is not pursuing any formal third-party certification.

In light of MoMA’s looming exhibition on the subject this summer, prefab housing is guaranteed to be a hot green topic throughout 2008. As such, Ikea last week unveiled its first BoKlok (“smart living” in Swedish) show home in England’s Gateshead (in the north, just south of Newcastle). The company actually started its line of prefabricated homes in cooperation with Skanska back in 1997, and received planning permission for ninety-three of the BoKlok dwellings in Gateshead last April. Ikea has already installed 3,500 of the homes throughout Scandinavia, which are offered in two- and three-bedroom arrangements.