The 2.3-square-mile community, set behind walls to divert hot desert winds and airport noise, will be car free, according to the design by Foster + Partners, the London firm that has become a leading practitioner of energy-saving architecture.
How could we save architecture?
To plumbing the depths of energy-saving architecture, China needs a complete set of industrial policy that is attractive to the industry, schools and research institutes.
This is the man who invented the neutron Bomb, you know, the nuclear weapon that kills people and animals, but saves architecture, even though there's no one left to live in the buildings.
Hundreds of buildings commissioned by the Works Progress Administration and Roosevelt's other "alphabet" agencies are being demolished or threatened with destruction, mourned or fought over by small groups of citizens in a new national movement to save the architecture of the New Deal.
David Gentleman, who created a series of murals for Charing Cross station in the mid-1970s, backed the idea of a register akin to the work by Sir John Betjeman and the Victorian Society in the 1950s and 60s to save Victorian architecture from the wrecking ball.
Branching is considered as a very efficient and energy-saving architecture to transfer matter (or information) from a central source (organ) to a large number of destinations.
Intelligent self-organizing power-saving architecture (ISPA), which assists in identifying suitable idle computers intelligently, let the system shut down or hibernate automatically based on a uniform rule-based company-wide policy.
Intelligent self-organizing power-saving architecture (ISPA), helps in solving the problem of determining idle component, i.e., which computer needs to be shut down in order to save power.
But even among those who believe that there is postwar architecture worth saving, 2 Columbus Circle has become the subject of controversy.
