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BRIGHT. left: renderings for the dalian City Center in dalian, China, shows its impact on the city skyline. right: Inside the Genzyme Center, where the 12-story atrium, mirrored chandeliers and reflecting panels allow its employees to work in natural light. events it regularly holds. three years in the making, the stadium was named 2011 world Sports Building of the Year at the world architecture Festival. © NBBJ, ANtoN GrAssl Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia || one of australia's great public spaces, this melbourne landmark is a civic and cultural center of three open squares nestled between rail lines. Fed Square, as it's colloquially known, contains shops, businesses and hosts cultural events and regularly draws 80 million visitors a year, so reducing the carbon footprint of an area with so many literal footprints was a particular challenge. Local architects from Lab and Bates Smart worked with atelier to design the "thermal labyrinth"-a cooling system of corrugated, concrete walls in between the railways and the square. australia experiences dramatic shifts in daily temperatures, so in the summertime the labyrinth locks the cool nighttime air while the day's heat is released. on the next day, that cold air is pumped into the atrium through the venting system. this process has the feel of air conditioning but at a small fraction of the energy required. (During the winter, the reverse is done.) Facilities also make extensive use of solar energy, as australia is hardly lacking in sunlight. Genzyme Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts || what traditionally made large-scale sustainability so elusive, particularly for tall buildings, was the need for artificial lighting and temperature control, but Behnisch found some ingenious ways to make use of sunlight in designing this 12-story glass building located J WM MAGAZINE near the charles river outside Boston. the Genzyme center's atrium roof features a "sunlight redirection system" with fixed mirrors to brighten the sunshine, which is then filtered through a ceiling prism and reflected from panels and walls. there are also dangling mirrors resembling chandeliers that disperse the light throughout the floors. computer-controlled window blinds are synchronized with the sun's position, which allows more light and deflects heat. these arrangements ensure natural illumination for all 920 workplaces for this biotech company. a two-layer window system creates a thermal buffer, keeping the building cool in the summer by locking in the heat and warm in the winter by venting it out. Dalian City Center, Dalian, China || Green technologies are growing fast in the world's fastest-growing economy, once known for its notorious polluting industries. Dalian is a city in northeast china with more than 6 million residents, a major seaport and gorgeous green mountains to its south. as the city looked to expand commerce and tourism, it hired the international architectural and design firm of NBBj to transform a once-polluted site on the Liaoning peninsula into the Dalian city center, a major high-rise and mixed-use complex. making 6.6 million square feet of architecture sustainable was an enormous task complicated by the region's hot, humid summers and dry, cold winters. atelier ten helped the architects design a plan to use thermal energy from the local seawater, solar panels and a natural ventilation system. the group also worked with the chinese government to reduce parking spots to encourage greater use of mass transit, carpooling and alternative fuel vehicles. [ 79 j w m a r r i o t t. c o m http://www.JWMARRIOTT.COM

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JWM - Volume 4, Issue 1

Jwm - Winter 2014
Contents
JW Experts
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
Distinctive Products, People, Ideas & Style
Songs for Travel
Well-Being
Food + Drink
Arts
The Portal
Going Global
White Out
Kissaten and Tell
Redefining Green
JW Experience
My Passion

JWM - Volume 4, Issue 1