Green project wins 'Best in Show' award.Fox & Fowle Architects was recently awarded Best in Show at Greenbuilld 2004 for the Gloucester Green submission in the Presented Poster Competition. The award was presented at the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Green Building Council's 2004 Conference and Expo in Portland, OR, and was chosen from over 300 internationally submitted poster presentations. The Gloucester Green project was designed by Mark Strauss See also: Mark Strauss (Marek Mann), Jewish artist and author Mark Strauss is a U.S. journalist. He has recently become editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. FAIA FAIA Florida Association of Insurance Agents FAIA Food Additives and Ingredients Association (Kent, UK) FAIA Fellow, American Institute of Architects (honorary position) , AICP AICP American Institute of Certified Planners AICP Association of Independent Commercial Producers AICP Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (Philadelphia, PA) AICP Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals , principal of Fox & Fowle Architects, and John Loughran AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , PP, LEED[R], an associate at the firm, as a green community that maximizes density and livability. The design was originally created as an entry for a competition held by the Boston Society of Architects for a 18.5-acre brownfield in Gloucester, MA, in which it was selected as the winner. Gloucester Green is designed as a live/work neighborhood with customized duplex lofts, on-site commerce and clean industry, and community recreation space. Recycled shipping containers serve as the building blocks for each of the structures. "Gloucester Green was created as a sustainable community Sustainable communities are communities planned, built, or modified to promote sustainable living. They tend to focus on environmental sustainability (including development and agriculture) and economic sustainability. to demonstrate how recycled industrial materials and a redeveloped brownfield can be transformed into an environmentally friendly, thriving downtown with access to mass transportation and entertainment," said Mark Strauss. "Shipping containers were chosen because of their structural integrity as well as the abundance in the northeast." Held at the Portland Convention Center, the USGBC's 2004 Greenbuild Conference and Expo brought together over 7,000 architects, engineers and other industry executives for three days of extensive educational programming, workshops, and industry networking. |
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