Banking on nature's power and poetry
- Chapman Construction/Design, Boston, MA (USA)
The new NMB Bank headquarters located southeast of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a most unusual corporate facility. Its walls slope, there is no air conditioning in the conventional sense, and the profusion of plants within its sunlit atria receive purified rainwater via multi-million dollar sculptures called flowforms. Yet there is method to its seeming madness. For this building - the result of a brilliant collaboration of architects, engineers, artists, and clients led by the Amsterdam architecture firm of Alberts and Van Huut - is one of the lowest consumers of energy of any corporate facility in the world. It has also been chosen by the Amsterdam public as one of the most popular buildings to appear in recent years. Little known in the United States, it is being hailed by many in Europe as an inspired harbinger of a more ecologically-sound, more humanistically-balanced future.
- OSTI ID:
- 5960150
- Journal Information:
- Sunworld; (USA), Vol. 14:3; ISSN 0149-1938
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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