Sunday, July 09, 2006
While I Was Away...
...New York's most ecologically-friendly skyscraper, Hearst Tower was completed and opened to the public in June. This gleaming tower of diamond-shaped glass panes is perched on top of a historic 1920s six-story building, and is "lit to its innermost depths by God's own high-efficiency light source, the sun," according to Newsweek. The tower's elevators are "destination dispatch," meaning that they require passengers to enter their floor at a kiosk, where a screen directs them to a cab, grouping them to wring the last watt of efficiency from their 30-second trips. I must go check this out today....
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