GREENSOURCE.CONSTRUCTION.COM – For years, trying to duplicate the “Bilbao effect,” museums have competed to be more spectacular. Now, it seems, they’re vying to be more virtuous-virtuous as in green. In San Francisco, Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences, due to open next October, aims to be the nation’s first LEED Platinum museum. In Denver, David Adjaye’s Museum of Contemporary Art seeks LEED Gold status. Then there is the new LEED Gold Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), which claims to be the world’s first all-new green art museum. That title matters less than the building’s achievements, which are considerable. Read Story
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