Fox News brought him back! Here’s an interesting interview on the subject of tax credits for Green Building.

PREVIOUSLY: Urban Re:Vision Executive Director Eric Corey Freed interviewed with the Fox Business News team via satellite during the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco. Watch him keep a straight face while answering tough questions on the affordability of green.

​John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, “Dallas would be a richer city to have the work of any of these architects represented, but as we went further into our review, we began to see the deep logic of the MOOV-Atelier Data design, Forwarding Dallas. Forwarding Dallas seemed to us to do the best job of incorporating concepts of sustainability into the foundation of the design.”

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By Tim McKeough

If all goes as planned, a self-sustaining, mixed-use project conceived by a team of Portugese architects will be constructed on a city block in Texas.

In December, Portugal-based Atelier Data and MOOV were named the winners of Re:Vision Dallas, an international competition put on by the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation (CDCDC), an affordable housing organization, and Urban Re:Vision, a national nonprofit group dedicated to responsible city planning.

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"Forwarding Dallas" is a collaboration among Portuguese architects André Almeida (Atelier Data), Carolina Pombo (Atelier Data), Inês Vicente (Atelier Data), José Niza (MOOV), João Calhau (MOOV)

A rundown area of Dallas, TX is being given an eco makeover by the Re:Vision Dallas winners, Atelier Data and Moov. Their plan is to create Forwarding Dallas, a sustainable community that spans an entire city block that will include hill-shaped buildings adorned with green roofs that grow produce to feed locals.

“The design proposes a series of hillside structures, with public spaces and trees located in the valleys, and solar panels and building-integrated wind turbines on the peaks,” Inhabitat says of Forwarding Dallas. “Renewable energy will completely power the community, while rainwater will be collected and stored for use within the complex.”

The block will include housing and public amenities like a coffee shop, gym, daycare and “a spiritual space.” Construction for Forwarding Dallas will begin in 2011.

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Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney and powerhouse speaker. He is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC), a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America.

He has served on the boards of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the National Apollo Alliance, Social Venture Network, Rainforest Action Network, Bioneers, Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” organization and Free Press.

Van won his first major award in 1998 when he was given the Reebok Human Rights Award. Other significant awards include the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader,” and the Rockefeller Foundation “Next Generation Leadership” Fellowship.

In the aftermath of 2005′s Hurricane Katrina, Van helped to found ColorOfChange.org, an online advocacy organization. With more than 100,000 members, Color Of Change is now the nation’s biggest e-advocacy organization tackling Black issues.
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Atelier Data and Moov are Portuguese-based architectural companies that came together for this ambitious venture to create an eco-friendly carbon-neutral community plan from an empty inner-city block in Dallas.

New-age valleys and hills will soon dominate the vistas of the region with trees, unusual shrubs and rare plants, to accompany the solar thermal panels, on hilltops where photovoltaic and wind energy will be produced.

For those of us not up to Dallas speed, photovoltaic (PV) is the name for a technology that most commonly uses solar panel to produce an electric current when exposed to light, which highlights just one way to become less dependent on fossil fuels, creating a clean and free energy for the world to use.

The winning design works extensively with innovative strategies that optimize sustainability, without draining funds. Open green spaces, greenhouses, living space and a rooftop water mechanism to recycle water will all be installed in the construction and the project will inevitably serve as an example for others, proving urban design has the very real potential of including environmentally aware technology in every element of the planning and design.

Pictured above is the submission by Little Diversified Architectural Consulting who was recently named one of the finalists in the project.

by Albertine Fox
Gloobbi Architecture

February 8, 2010

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Самодостаточность – понятие субъективное. Вот как может быть самодостаточным квартал большого города? Оказывается, вполне может. Именно таким должен быть квартал Forwarding Dallas, который должен появиться в городе Даллас через несколько лет.

Застройщик Urban Revision со штаб-квартирой в Сан-Франциско и португальская архитектурная фирма Atelier Data and MOOV выиграли конкурс на застройку одного из холмов в черте города Даллас. По их задумке в обозримом будущем на этом холме должен вырасти самодостаточный городской квартал, в котором будет все для того, чтобы не зависеть от городской инфраструктуры.

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Based on polls so far, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting’s “Entangled Bank” is capturing the majority of citizen responses for Urban Re:Vision’s “Re:Vision Dallas” (popularity in no way influences the judging process for the most feasible block).

Today we learned that Entangled Bank has been shortlisted (out of over 600 entries) for presentation at the World Architecture Festival. Congratulations to the the design team at Little and to the visionary brief by Urban Re:Vision that made these designs possible.

Learn more:

• Urban Re:Vision (Re:Vision Dallas)
• Little Diversified Architectural Consulting
• Project Media Weblog
• World Architecture Festival
• Central Dallas CDC
• bcWORKSHOP

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