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April 11, 2008

U.S. green buildings don't go far enough, AIA award judges say

By KATIE ZEMTSEFF
Journal Staff Reporter

A panel of international judges recently met in Seattle to choose the country's top 10 sustainable projects. They were not impressed.

“We saw very much less of what I would really liked to have seen,” said Glenn Murcutt of the Australian firm Glenn Murcutt Architecture, one of the judges and winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize. “If we're not careful, the whole area of environmentally responsive architecture will get lost in the quagmire of number crunching.”


 
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