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February 2010
Features
Fourth Annual Smart Environments Awards

This year’s winners paired clever interior design with the latest green technology for intimate spaces that are not just inspirational but humane.
Features
Design Bugs Out

The Design Council and the Department of Health partner to combat the spread of infection in U.K. hospitals.
Features: A Backyard in Flanders
Features: Design Bugs Out
Features: Fourth Annual Smart Environments Awards
Features: The Plant Cafe Organic
Features: Twelve West
Features: Kroon Hall
Features: Platinum at a Price
Features: Beyond the Beauty Shot
Features: Out of the Attic
Features: Spirit of Community
Features: Forget Me Not
Features: An Act of Defiance
Features: Wrapped Up
Features: Born Again
Features: Stewardship 101
Features: Great Danes
Notes from Metropolis
Beyond the Beauty Shot

Awards based on pretty pictures alone do a disservice to everyone.

Observed
Out of the Attic
Spirit of Community
Forget Me Not
An Act of Defiance

America
Wrapped Up

There’s a connection between the bag holding our columnist’s morning newspaper and the recent global climate summit.

In Production
Born Again

A young Bugaboo designer gets a second chance at his first assignment.

Learning Curve
Stewardship 101

Thanks to a citywide building effort, New Haven students are getting an up-close education in architecture.

Productsphere
Great Danes

The birthplace of Wegner, Jacobsen, and Kjærholm is still a force in design.

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Reference Page: February 2010


A Backyard in Flanders

The legendary Wirtz garden—a horticultural experiment of otherworldly dimensions—remains a feast for the senses.

The Plant Cafe Organic

The green-thumb ethos of this San Francisco eatery is perfectly reflected in its rigorously green interior design.

Twelve West

From the locally crafted interior to the wind turbines on its roof, the new offices for Zimmer Gunsul Frasca have a distinctly made-in-Portland feel.

Kroon Hall

Yale’s Kroon Hall is proof positive that aggressively green buildings—even carbon-neutral ones—don’t have to sacrifice beauty to achieve their environmental goals.

Platinum at a Price

Kansas’s celebrated Studio 804 builds its most ambitious—and costly—house to date. The timing couldn’t have been worse.

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