The city of San Francisco has just accepted three proposals for the city's new transit terminal. It will be the end of a proposed high-speed rail line from L.A. and the West Coast's version of New York's Grand Central Station.
All of the designs have the following things in common:
- They are taller than 1,200 feet
- They are capped with wind turbines
- They must be extreeeeemely earthquake proof.
To check out the rest of the designs, keep reading the story.
Via Inhabitat and SFGate
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written by Marcie, August 09, 2007
I am very excited with this architectual struture. This kind of change makes me giddy. I am very pleased that I have begun to come to your site also. Everything i have been lookign for about Eco-technowledgy has all be orginized here pretty much. And to think I would only use yahoo's news panel to look for such things, psshah!
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written by j.blu, August 09, 2007
For perhaps the first time in my life I'm rooting for the SOM design. Diagrid instead of the largely rectilinear frames of the other two would save huge amounts of steel (and thereby reduce carbon footprint significantly). And the way that diagrid dematerializes from bottom to top? HOT.
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written by jack, August 09, 2007
I like ecogeek because I see new green-ish tech all the time. The problem with ecogeek is that the authors don't do thorough journalistic standard research.
Of course ecogeek has no financial incentive to sacrifice quantity for quality (high quality stories take more time to produce, naturally). The reason is fairly obvious. New stories bring folks to the site. I'm one of them. I use RSS and visit the site only when there is a new item. And, like most folks on the web, I don't tend to read anything longer than a few paragraphs, except when I'm doing the research.
Of course ecogeek has no financial incentive to sacrifice quantity for quality (high quality stories take more time to produce, naturally). The reason is fairly obvious. New stories bring folks to the site. I'm one of them. I use RSS and visit the site only when there is a new item. And, like most folks on the web, I don't tend to read anything longer than a few paragraphs, except when I'm doing the research.
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