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Expo 2000 Pavilion for the Netherlands

  • Location: Hannover, Germany
  • Year of completion: 2000
  • Use: exhibition
  • Scale: 5 floors
  • Architects: MvRdV, Rotterdam, NL
  • Mechanical engineers: Technical Management, Amersfoort, NL
  • Structural engineer: ABT Bouwkunde, Velp, NL
  • Wind turbine product: WES 5 Tulipo 2.5kW
  • References: www.mvrdv.nl
    www.windturbinesuk.co.uk
    David Gissen, Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century, Princeton Architectural Press, NY: 2002, pp. 94-95.

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Neues Technisches Rathaus

  • Location: Munich, Germany
  • Year of completion: 2000
  • Use: administration
  • Scale: highrise
  • Architects: Ganzer + Unterholzner, Munich, D.
  • Building Art (including turbine): Vito Acconci, NYC, NY.

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City of Melbourne Council House 2

  • Location: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year of completion: 2006
  • Use: administration
  • Scale: 10 floors
  • Architect: City of Melbourne in association with DesignInc.
  • Structural engineer: Bonacci Group
  • Services engineer: Lincolne Scott
  • Civil engineer: Bonacci GroupMvRdV, Rotterdam, NL.
  • References: Russell Fortmeyer, “Melbourne’s Great Experiment: Technological ambition and daring-do provide a wealth of lessons for aspiring green designers,” in: GreenSource Magazine, May 2009.
    Roderic Bunn, “Low Down Under,” in: BSRIA Delta t, January 2008, pp.10-15.

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The Green Building

  • Location: Manchester, UK
  • Year of completion: 2006
  • Use: residential
  • Scale: 10 floors
  • Architects: Terry Farrell & Partners

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Near North Apartments

  • Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  • Year of completion: 2007
  • Use: residential
  • Scale: 5 floors
  • Architects: Murphy Jahn
  • Turbines: 8 x 1.5kW Aerotecture International turbines
  • Reference: David Sokol, “Learning to Live on Alternative Energy,” in: Architectural Record 3/2008, pp.146-147

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Adventure Aquarium

  • Location: 1 Riverside Dr Camden, NJ 08103, USA
  • Year of completion: 2007
  • Use: Aquarium
  • Turbines: 12 x AeroVironment AVX400 turbines, total capacity 4.8kW

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Kettle Food

  • Location: 3150 Kettle Way, Beloit, WI 53511, USA
  • Year of completion: 2007
  • Use: food production
  • Turbines: 18 x 1kW AeroVironment turbines

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Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University

  • Location: Tempe, AZ, USA
  • Year of completion: 2008
  • Use: academic
  • Scale: 4 floors
  • Architects: Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Inc., Atlanta, GA
  • MEP: Engineer Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers, Phoenix, AZ
  • Structural Engineer: Paragon Structural Design, Phoenix, AZ
  • Wind turbine product: 6 AeroVironment turbines

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Bahrain World Trade Center

  • Location: Manama, Bahrain
  • Year of completion: 2008
  • Use: administration
  • Scale: highrise
  • Architects: Atkins
  • Wind turbine product: 3 turbines, 225kW each, Ø 29m

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Croydon City House

  • Location: Croydon, UK
  • Year of completion: 2008
  • Use: residential
  • Scale: 14 floors
  • Turbines: 8 x Quiet Revolution qr5

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Greenway Self Park

  • Location: W Kinzle St/Clarke St, Chicago, IL 60654, USA
  • Year of completion: 2009
  • Use: parking
  • Scale: 11 floors
  • Architects: HOK
  • Turbines: 12 Helix Wind S594 turbines
  • Reference: Gidion Fink Shapiro, Integrated Wind Turbine, in: Architect: Magazine of AIA, December 2010

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Kinetica

  • Location: Dalston, London E8, UK
  • Year of Completion: 2009
  • Use: mixed-use (residential, offices)
  • Scale: 14 floors
  • Architects: Waugh Thistleton
  • Wind turbine: Quiet Revolution

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Twelve West

  • Location: Portland, OR, USA
  • Year of completion: 2009
  • Use: mixed-use
  • Scale: highrise
  • Architects: ZGF Architects LLP
  • Wind turbine product: 4 Skystream 3.7 turbines
  • References: Nadav Malin, “Case Study Revisit: Fringe Benefits,” in: Greensource, 1+2/2013, p.62

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Adobe Headquarters

  • Location: San Jose, California, USA
  • Year of completion: 2009
  • Use: office
  • Turbines: 20 Windspire VAWT

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Strata SE 1

  • Location: 8 Walworth Rd, Southwark, London, SE1, UK
  • Year of completion: 2010
  • Use: residential
  • Scale: 43 floors, 148m
  • Architects: BFLS
  • Engineers: WFL Group
  • Combined capacity of turbines: 57kW

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Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market

  • Location: 1209 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Year of completion: 2010
  • Use: commercial
  • Architect: Lydon Lynch Architects
  • Turbines: 4 x Southwest SkyScream turbines, rated capity 2kW each
  • LEED Platinum
  • Reference: Alanna Malone, “Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market,” in: GreenSource 2012

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Hess Tower

  • Location: 1501 McKinney St, Houston, TX, USA
  • Year of completion: 2010
  • Use: office
  • Scale: 29 floors, 490ft
  • Architects: Gensler
  • 10 wind turbines were installed and removed after turbine pieces fell on the street in December 2010

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Public Utility Commission Headquarters

  • Location: 525 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Year of completion: 2012
  • Use: administration
  • Scale: highrise (13 floors)
  • Architects: KMD, Stevens, JV

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Pearl River Tower

  • Location: Zhujiang Avenue West,Tianhe, Guangzhou, China
  • Year of completion: 2012
  • Use: administration
  • Scale: 71 floors (above ground), 310m
  • Architect/Structural Engineer/MEP Engineer: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
  • References: Roger E. Frechette, “Seeking Zero Energy,” in: Civil Engineering, January 2009, pp.38-41.

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Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

  • Location: 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
  • Year of completion: 2012
  • Use: medical
  • Scale: 130ft
  • Wind turbine product: 18 x Venger V2
  • Technical description: 18.5ft-tall VAWT, cut-in-speed 8.9mph, capacity of each turbine 4.5kW, combined capacity 81kW, projected energy production 85,500kWh/year

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HafenCity Hamburg

  • Location: Hamburg, Germany
  • Year of completion: 2014
  • Use: office
  • Scale: 7 floors
  • Architects: Bob Gysin + Partner BGP Architekten Zurich
  • Mechanical engineers: 3-Plan, Winterthur
  • Structural engineer: Wetzel & von Seth, Hamburg
  • Energy consultant: ee-concept, Darmstadt
  • Wind turbine product: 3 VAWT CleanVerTec

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