Chris Collins Interview on Alternative Channel TV- Holcim Gold 2008
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Interview with Christopher J. Collins, Gold winner of the 2008 Holcim Awards North America. Chris Collins, Executive Director, won the Holcim Awards Gold 2008 for his project: Solar 2 Green Energy Arts and Education Center, New York, USA
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Solar One Wins Holcim Gold 2008 Award
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Solar One is extremely proud to announce that we have been awarded the prestigious Holcim Gold 2008 North America Award (pictured) for Solar 2, the net-zero energy use building that will be constructed on the Solar One blacktop starting in 2009. Along with the trophy, there is a $100K prize. Projects with a high expectation of completion are especially valued in the competition, and Solar 2 was praised as “bringing the eco-building vision into reality”.
The awards are given by the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation to projects in 5 regions of the world. The top projects are automatically selected for the Holcim International Award, with the winner to be announced in Lucerne, Switzerland in May 2009. The winner of the International Gold Award is also awarded a cash prize of $650K.
Solar One Executive Director Chris Collins accepted the award Thursday night in Montreal, along with architect Colin Cathcart of Kiss+Cathcart and Nigel Nicholls of engineering firm Arup, thanking the Holcim Foundation for their support of the Solar 2 project. “We are excited to have received this prestigious international award,” said Chris Collins. “It recognizes the need for a building like Solar 2, particularly in NYC, where buildings account for 79% of CO2 emissions.”
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Solar 2 Featured in GreenSource Magazine
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Design for a Carbon-Free Life: The Pursuit of “Net” Zero Energy
October 2007
A Growing Number of Projects Focus Attention On An Elusive Goal
By Molly Miller
Buildings are responsible for nearly half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and consume more than 70 percent of the electricity generated by U.S. power plants, according to the Energy Information Administration. These numbers have become more and more widely cited in the press and are the mantra of Santa Fe-based architect Edward Mazria, who has long spoken out on the link between buildings and global warming. In 2002, Mazria founded Architecture 2030, a non-profit organization with the mission of dramatically reducing the building sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. In late 2005, the group issued the 2030 Challenge, calling for an immediate 50 percent reduction in fossil fuel use in new buildings and for climate-neutral buildings by 2030. (full article)
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‘Green’-Lighted
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
April 28, 2007
SOLAR FLAIR: The futuristic “zero-carbon” center will open in 2009.
Eco-Friendly Center A City Groundbreaker
By Sharri Markson
Construction of the first building in the nation to leave a “zero carbon footprint” will begin next year on the East Side.
The eco-friendly center will be open to the public with interactive environmental exhibits, a cafe, bookstore and green theater, showing films powered by the sun. Construction is slated to begin in September 2008 and will open a year later. (more…)
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Three Exemplars
Friday, November 17th, 2006
November 17, 2006
Until recently, sustainable architecture had suffered a serious image problem. Overshadowed by Southwestern earthdomes, sod-roofed shacks and other granola-flavored efforts, and further hindered by the clumsy contemporary work of some of the movement’s leading protagonists, ecological architecture is still far away from being regarded as simply a sub-set (or super-set) of outstanding design. Elsewhere in the world, this perception is changing; for example, many of the works of Norman Foster and Renzo Piano are being admired as architectural achievements whose designs are inextricable from their environmental rewards. Here are a few buildings in New York that are laudable for integrating high performance and handsome design. CHL
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Editorial
Friday, September 15th, 2006
September 2006
Thanks to the efforts of E-News subscribers, the AIA, and the sponsorship of mayors from the four corners of the U.S., Albuquerque, Chicago, Seattle and Miami, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) formally adopted ‘The 2030 Challenge’ in June, 2006. U.S. mayors sent the clear message that local leaders are willing to take action on the important issues of climate change and energy independence. And they are taking action. (more…)
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