It was completed this year. It's for the elderly. It received a "BBC Effinergie energy efficiency " award. But how can you give a building that's in the woods, that's outside of the city, an award for any kind of efficiency? Being in nature is not being green, no matter what fancy thing you do to a building....



The urban planner and blogger Dan Malouff: “LEED architecture without good urban design is like cutting down the rainforest using hybrid-powered bulldozers.”