Supermarket as Hybrid SUV : TreeHugger - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Apr 08
  

  julien dossier

  Whole Foods--a piece of green architecture designed to hold an organic food emporium--suggests that both may need to adjust their priorities. Or at least start acknowledging that they've become victims of their own success

  architecture retail trend sustainabledevelopment

• 04 Apr 08
  

  ag99jyd

  • Hawthorne concludes:

      

    "But the first rule of sustainable architecture is to keep new buildings as small and efficient as possible. With its soaring 30-foot ceilings and endless aisles, 280 subterranean parking spots and all those TVs flickering day and night, this place is neither. It's more like the grocery store version of a hybrid SUV made by Lexus or a 12,000-square-foot "green" house with a swimming pool and six-car garage accompanying its solar panels and sustainably harvested decking.

      

    Forget about doing more with less. This green-tinged cornucopia is all about doing more with more. ::Los Angeles Times

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