Comments on: Bar Code by Woods Bagot

By: Ruben Trelles

Ruben Trelles — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:30:48 +0000

I just stumbled upon this blog because I liked the pictures of the interior design. Then I followed by reading the article and everyones comment. Overall I just think people dont need to be negative about someone trying to reduce the amount of energy used, if its a trend or not as long as its positive then we cannot be negative about it… but instead further the awereness and knowledge. Overall ,every little bit helps and if it takes it to be a trend for people to do it .. well its a better beginning then no beginning at all. Great post by the way great pictures , the bar looks awesome.

By: Jane Gray

Jane Gray — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:30:20 +0000

I think they specifically mean that the lights in the place run on as much electricity as making a cup of tea. That’s it.

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:14:20 +0000

Well, this is and old old post, but anyway, before we go out on each other´s throats, the issue here is sustainable architecture, and not “just” oil, or suntainability in general.
I agree with Nico, we cannot take half measures and say we are doin’it for good. No no no. I´m brazillian and the eco-trend is just hitting real hard these days here, everyone wants to be “in hollywood” as miss kittin would say, so the larger contractors and cosntruction enterprises all come with some form of greenish stuff. Does that solve anything? Nops…
Just because you´re gonna collect your stormwater runnof does not mean your green. Some condo’s here do that, and then propose a corbusian tower-in-the-park scheme to a very large residential enterprise… so, you get the park, you drain the water but… you kill the city and foster the use of automobiles… not green at all once you look at it in the big picture.
The Holcim Awards last year were also hard to swallow… one social-sustainability rationale was “a pool is sustainable because everyone can use it” – shallow shallow shallow. Not enough, but enough said about it.

By: Voice of Sense

Voice of Sense — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:39:44 +0000

People still do not truely understand that global warming due to co2 emission is not a proven fact!!!
Many well repected scientists believe global warming is due to solar activity (thats the sun for all the idiots). 40 years ago the human race thought we would be heading to the next ice age! anybody who studies geography will realise that the earth naturally heats up and cools down ove a period of decades. look it up its called el nino and el nina!

Mr Al Gore’s film is extreamly opinionated! mainly by himself. The sole reasons the world is still using oil is because of corruption, who do you think pays for presidencial campaigns! thats right oil companys!! the electric powered car was around 20 years ago but that was squased because there too much money in oil! and now people have inveted water powered cars but this is not a known fact!

Do you not seem to think that if governments wanted to reduce co2 emissions caused by lighting, they would only allow selling of energy efficent lightbulbs!

The world is unfortunatly corrupt! and the sooner someone has the balls to stand up and tell the truth!!! excluding Al gores lies!

However with all this in mind recycling is something that can be sorted! instead of using oil based plastics, there are other souces which are clean and renewable and are not fucking the earth up!

Give it up! see the bigger picture, its all lies about global warming due to c02

By: Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:45:14 +0000

Dieo- when it comes to something as important as environmental issues surely its not really appropriate to use a ‘figure of speech’. Afterall, anybody (oil companies, car companies) could claim such a statement in that case, if they so much as had an inkling that they were a fraction more efficient than their competitors.

Regardless, since Marcus’ update its clear that the claim was only being made about the lighting, which is fair enough.