tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 02 2007 | news, environment, technology, architecture
Quoted: Foster + Partners is designing the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city in Abu Dhabi. Named Masdar City, which means “the source,” the 1,483-acre project will include commercial and manufacturing space dedicated to developing ecofriendly products, housing, a university, and the headquarters for Future Energy Company, which is spearheading the initiative.
wow, that's amazing! if this actually works, i wonder what other countries would start building cities like this?
- tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2007 | environment, architecture
wow! it would be so cool to live in something like this.
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