Project profile: Chicago Center for Green Technology

Apr 30, 2003

Designed by Chicago-based Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, the building uses solar and geothermal energy, a rooftop garden, and a natural habitat to filter storm water. The city invested $9 million in clean-up costs and another $5.4 million toward construction and renovation. The 1952 building is surrounded by a 17-acre site that was formerly the Sacramento Crushing Corporation, a construction materials recycler.
(2003 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects recipient)

Author:

AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE)

Published & professionally reviewed by:

The American Institute of Architects

URL:

www.aiatopten.org