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This Week’s Archidose: WSU Olympia Ave Student Housing
11.30.2009 Mithun, In The News
Mithun’s WSU Olympia Avenue Student Housing is featured as archidose.org’s weekly dose of architecture:
The green features in this building reflect Mithun’s widespread commitment to sustainable architecture as well as what is becoming the norm in LEED and even some non-LEED projects: geothermal heating/cooling, sun-shading (largely dictating the building’s appearance), stormwater collection and reuse, regional materials, recycled materials. It is a straightforward building executed skillfully and thoughtfully, educating the residents about sustainability as much as their classes.
A weekly dose of architecture, written by John Hill, looks at contemporary architectural works with architectural and/or cultural significance. The broad focus of the articles is the ideas embedded within the works.
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