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Sustainability Key To Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House captured the spirit and soul of an entire continent and is one of the first buildings designed with sustainability in mind. It was built to last 250 years.

Sustainability was one of the key considerations in the design of the Sydney Opera House, which was built to last 250 years.

Shigeru Ban is Awarded The 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Everyone has their heroes, their role-models, their if-I-could-be-like-anyone-it-would-be persons and I am no different. I wrote about his past accomplishments, including his cardboard cathedral and paper tube relief houses on GBE a couple of years ago and now my career hero was given the ultimate award in architecture this past month. He is Shigeru Ban…