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....
Lovely elderly housing in France, #energyefficient too. #architecture #Timber http://t.co/dRwPj72FRZ pic.twitter.com/32CTrZEIZl
— Elrond Burrell (@ElrondBurrell) December 17, 2013
The urban planner and blogger Dan Malouff: “LEED architecture without good urban design is like cutting down the rainforest using hybrid-powered bulldozers.”