Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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First building in the zero waste, zero carbon emission

Wow.

MASDAR HEADQUARTERS MASDAR CITY, ABU DHABI, UAE
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has won an international competition to design the Masdar Headquarters, the first building in the zero waste, zero carbon emission Masdar City outside of Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates. The Masdar Headquarters will be the first mixed-use positive energy building in the world. AS+GG worked with MEP engineers Environmental Systems Design and structural engineers Thornton Tomasetti on the design.

Some freaking interesting pictures here:

http://www.smithgill.com/MasdarHeadquarters.htm