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How Green Was My Cubicle: What To Make Of Green Work Spaces?

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Feb

Your author's career-long journey of itinerant, grousy keyboard-for-hire disillusionment has given me... well, something. I am an excelloent typist, and the Wall Street Journal belatedly gave me an unflattering stipple portrait of my own. Oh, and also: I have compiled, in my mind, something of a treasury of "isn't work just the worst" quotations from various writers. There are certainly more resonant ones than Don DeLillo's characteristically terse (if uncharacteristically straightforward) assertion in Underworld that, "capitalism strips the nuances from places." But look around you, at the office in which you are likely reading this post. The dim cubicles and hissing flourescents and dense industrial carpeting. Dude's got a point, right? That plain aesthetic fact makes Sunday's New York Times article about green office spaces that much more interesting a read.

Green Condos Under Construction at 100 Gold Street in Vinegar Hill

Mon

Mar

by Stephen Del Percio

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100 Gold Street is touting itself as the first green residential building in Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood. Designed and developed Anthony Morena’s REDD Group, the 5-story, 10-unit condominium development is currently under construction just a few blocks east of the Manhattan Bridge and is incorporating a variety of sustainable design features. 9-foot windows will provide ample natural daylight and Manhattan views for residents; gas-fired, wall-hung boilers in each unit should save up to 40 percent on heating costs. Recycled glass tile will be used for backsplashes in each kitchen and zero-VOC paints throughout are being supplied by Brooklyn-based Ivy Coatings. Other materials sourced locally include recycled-content roof pavers manufactured by Saugerties-based Unity Creations and hand-blown light fixtures by Beacon-based Niche Modern. Green features will also include on-site bicycle storage, dual flush toilets, and compact fluorescent lights throughout. REDD also intends to purchase renewable energy credits to offset the building’s projected energy consumption during its first year of operation.

Recycling Shea Stadium, Green Architecture in Brooklyn, Green Leases, Roofs, & Concrete

Sun

Oct

by Stephen Del Percio

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Leone Design Studio practices green architecture in DUMBO.
City is recycling parts of Shea Stadium for use in other Parks Department locations.
New web site launches for New York City commuters to calculate their carbon footprint.
LEED Silver hopeful Edge sets record for most expensive condo unit ever sold in Williamsburg; duplex goes for $5.145 million.
Government of Flanders inks 10-year, 7400-square-foot lease at New York Times Tower.
Green concrete used in construction o
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Design Competition Solicits LEED Platinum Proposals for Middle School at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park

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Jul

by Stephen Del Percio

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The USGBC’s New York Chapter sponsors an annual Natural Talent Competition through its Emerging Green Builders of New York organization. This year, participants’ charge was to design a LEED Platinum-level arts center and middle school in DUMBO; concepts were required to also include a proposed revitalization of the areas adjacent to and including the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park’s Tobacco Warehouse, which was originally built in the 1870s as a tobacco customs inspection point along the Brooklyn waterfront. In addition to reaching a projected Platinum rating, entries had to incorporate principles from the LEED for Schools rating system, as well as New York City’s Green Schools Guide and the NY-CHPS High Performance Schools Guidelines.