William Bostwick on the Life and Death of Green Design: More and more architects have realized that the old standby for certification, with its checklist approach to what’s good for the environment and what’s not, rewards rule-following and ignores the kind of big thinking that makes architecture worth caring about. Not only that, many architects have an alternative—one that scraps LEED altogether in favor of a holistic approach to sustainable design. [Good]
Beijing’s great new architecture is a mixed blessing for the city: In Beijing, the latest trend is architecture that will force the world to pay attention, and the result is a striking, unmistakably twenty-first-century city, combining explosive, relentless development with a fondness for the avant-garde. [New Yorker]
Architect David Fisher designs first rotating skyscraper for Dubai and Moscow: Extravagant plans were unveiled yesterday for the world’s first swirling skyscrapers, with each floor rotating up to once an hour to form an ever-changing profile on the skyline. [Times]
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