Super Tall and Ultra Green

SOM’s Tower in Guangzhou, China, Aims to Generate More Energy Than It Uses

This article notes that “green” building practices have been adopted as far away as China.  Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China will harvest wind, humidity, and solar power from the environment and use it to maximum efficiency through myriad interwoven systems.  Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the Pearl River Tower will house the CNTC Guangdong Tobacco Company headquarters and take advantage of aggressive sustainability incentives from China’s Ministry of Construction to become a zero-energy structure.

Source: Jude Stewart, MetropolisMag.com/Next Generation; Aug, 2006