Energy ‘doctors’ and loans for solar panels are among the green projects which will be pioneered in 10 ‘low carbon zones’ in the capital, the Mayor of London announced today.
Speaking at the London Congress, a meeting of the Mayor of London and the capital’s 33 boroughs at the Guildhall, Boris Johnson announced the 10 successful boroughs which have won funding to become ‘low carbon zones’.
They are: Barking Town Centre (Barking and Dagenham), Muswell Hill (Haringey), Archway (Islington), Brixton (Lambeth), Lewisham Town Centre (Lewisham), Wandle Valley (Merton), Ham and Petersham (Richmond upon Thames), Peckham (Southwark), Hackbridge ( Sutton) Queen’s Park (Westminster).
Each of the winning boroughs will be awarded at least £200,000 to pioneer energy –busting measures in their low carbon zones.
Images from the submission by ARUP (London, UK) – Sauerbruch Hutton – Experientia – Galley Eco Capital
The Low2No Competition for an energy and innovation block in Jatkasaari, Helsinki, is shifting from ideas to implementation. The five international teams, selected out of 74 applicants to take part in the competition last May, have delivered their competition
proposals during the summer. The competition results were published on Tuesday, September 1st in Helsinki, Finland.
The jury selected the proposal of team ARUP – Sauerbruch Hutton – Experientia – Galley Eco Capital called c_life – City as living factory of ecology the winner. In their proposal, the multinational team leveraged a particularly promising consumer/behavioural framework to empower citizens in meeting the goal of sustainability. In addition, the team presented an innovative funding model for developing Jatkasaari into the first carbon neutral district in Finland.
- Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG (Copenhagen, Denmark) – Vahanen – ARUP
Foresight Innovation – Transsolar Energietechnik – Anttinen Oiva
Arkkitehdit AoA – Masu Planning – Passiivitalo.fi – Pasi Maenpaa -
Mikko Jalas
- Peter Rose & Partners (Boston, USA) – Michael Van Valkenburgh
Associates – Guy Nordenson and Associates – Matthias Schuler,
Transsolar Climate Engineering – Mobility in Chain – ARO
Architectural Research Office
- REX/Croxton Collaborative/NOW (New York, USA) – Transsolar
Energietechnik – Magnusson Klemencic Associates – Bureau Bas Smets -
2×4 – Arup New York – Front – Jonathan Rose Companies
- WSP Group (London, UK) – Heatherwick Studios – B&M Architects – JK MM
Architects – Space Syntax – Helsinki University – AA Palmberg Ltd -
Pekka Himanen – Pauli Aalto-Setala
ZHANGJIANG High-Tech Park in Shanghai plans to make 5,000 rental bikes available by early-2010 to help workers in the park travel between the Metro Station and offices. The 150 bike rental stations will be positioned every 300 meters in the 25 square kilometer area. The project is to stated in October 2008 with 2 rental stations and 20 bikes now the park has 600 bikes with 50 stations. The bikes are free for the first half hour and then 1 to 3 yuan (15 to 45 US cents) per hour for more time.
A stylised native woodland is being planted at Schwartz Plaza at New York University by George Reis, N.Y.U.’s supervisor of sustainable landscapes. The Manhatta project inspired Reis to propose the landscape using plants from before settlement of Manhattan. The design was completed by Darrell Morrison after Reis won the funds from the class of 2008 legacy fund. Recently Reis and Morrison, along with the help of some students, began planting 2,000 plants that were all thriving on Manhattan from the 1600′s.
The Huffington Post is looking for submission of photos of the green roofs around the world. The photos are being ranked by users to determined the 8 Rooftop Gardens from around the world. Its easy to enter just find the address of the project and then upload a photo and give a quick description of the roof.
