<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Rather reminds me of a "That Mitchell and Webb Look" sketch where the English cellists with the Swedish orchestra decide they'd rather turn their London flat into an airport than commute to the airport to fly to Sweden all the time... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaHGAB8yTY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaHGAB8yTY</a><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Kathleen<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Benjamin Pratt" <benjamin.g.pratt@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Green Building" <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, October 4, 2013 8:52:09 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Greenbuilding] ten car garage house<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Maybe less ugly, but just as ostentatious<div><a href="http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/06/exploring-john.html" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/06/exploring-john.html">http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/06/exploring-john.html</a> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:01 AM, David Bergman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bergman@cyberg.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bergman@cyberg.com">bergman@cyberg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Somewhat relatedly (though not nearly in the same category), this NYTimes article the other day sent all the wrong messages and was typically (for the Times) way behind the trends.<br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/greathomesanddestinations/oaks-in-their-midst.html?ref=realestate" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/greathomesanddestinations/oaks-in-their-midst.html?ref=realestate"> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/greathomesanddestinations/oaks-in-their-midst.html?ref=realestate</a> <br><div><br></div>And re the 10-car garage house, I love that they tried to invoke superficial biomimicry.<br><div><br></div><span style="color: #808080;" data-mce-style="color: #808080;" color="#808080"><span style="color: #808080;" data-mce-style="color: #808080;" color="#808080">David Bergman RA LEED AP<br></span></span><div><br></div><span style="color: #808080;" data-mce-style="color: #808080;" color="#808080"><b>architect -</b> <a href="http://cyberg.com/dba/dba.htm" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://cyberg.com/dba/dba.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">David Bergman Architect<br> </span></a><b>designer</b> - <a href="http://cyberg.com/fw/fw.htm" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://cyberg.com/fw/fw.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">Fire & Water Lighting<br> </span></a><b>author</b> - <a href="http://ecooptimism.com/?page_id=58" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://ecooptimism.com/?page_id=58"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide<br> </span></a><b>blog</b> - <a href="http://www.ecooptimism.com/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.ecooptimism.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">EcoOptimism<br> </span></a><b>adjunct faculty</b> - Parsons The New School for Design</span> <br><div><br></div><span style="color: #808080;" data-mce-style="color: #808080;" color="#808080"><a href="mailto:bergman@cyberg.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bergman@cyberg.com">bergman@cyberg.com</a> <a href="http://www.cyberg.com/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.cyberg.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">www.cyberg.com</span></a> <br> <a href="tel:212%20475%203106" target="_blank" data-mce-href="tel:212%20475%203106">212 475 3106</a> twitter: @EcoOptimism</span> <br><div><div class="h5"><br> At 11:32 PM 10/3/2013, Sacie Lambertson wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote><div><div class="h5">This is truly gross:<br><div><br></div><a href="http://dornob.com/mountain-hugging-house-designed-to-wrap-around-a-hilltop/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://dornob.com/mountain-hugging-house-designed-to-wrap-around-a-hilltop/"> http://dornob.com/mountain-hugging-house-designed-to-wrap-around-a-hilltop/</a> <br><div><br></div>On the other hand, this one is interesting with an unfortunate dearth of construction detail:<br><div><br></div><a href="http://dornob.com/rustic-modern-concrete-rammed-earth-house-design/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://dornob.com/rustic-modern-concrete-rammed-earth-house-design/"> http://dornob.com/rustic-modern-concrete-rammed-earth-house-design/</a> <br><div><br></div>Sacie<br></div></div><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br> Greenbuilding mailing list<br> to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br> <a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><div><br></div>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br> <a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org"> http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></blockquote></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Greenbuilding mailing list<br> to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br> <a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br> <br> to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br> <a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br></div><br>b e n j a m i n p r a t t<br> <br>professor art+design<br>the university of wisconsin stout</div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br>Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<br><div><br></div>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>