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World Trade Center: Security squashes Energy

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 07. 3.05
Design & Architecture

wtc.jpgWe rather liked Daniel Libeskind's notion of wind turbines in the upper floors of the World Trade Center. He knew there were not enough people to fill it, so why not fill it with turbines? Then the police moved in (rather late in the game, we think) and suddenly the windmill space is moved to the bottom and made into a concrete bunker to enclose mechanical equipment. What a bore. What a failure of vision. ::Life without buildings.

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It's probably better for wind energy, in the end. Roof and building-mounted turbines never work as well as people expect.

jump to top scruss says:

does anyone know of buildings that have used wind turbines on the roof? I'd love some information how successfull it can be and how it aesthetically impacts a building.

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