O’ Mighty Green / STAR strategies + architecture

Sustainable Cenotaph for Isaac Newton – Boullée, 1784: © STAR strategies + architecture, 2011

The Rotterdam based design team STAR strategies + architecture has shared with us their recent project, O’ Mighty Green, a critical piece about Green – washing and especially about the abuse of “Green” in architecture. Additional images and text can be seen after the break.

Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (…) savior of the universe and the humanity. And, like God, it has millions of believers. Humans are relatively simpleminded and suspicious and need evidence before belief can become conviction, Green has come to represent sustainability; has become its incarnation in the human world. But sustainability, like God, might not have a form, nor a color…

Sustainable Concentration Camp Auschwitz I, 1940: © STAR strategies + architecture, 2011
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Cite: Hank Jarz. "O’ Mighty Green / STAR strategies + architecture" 22 Jun 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/144654/o%25e2%2580%2599-mighty-green-star-strategies-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

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