While admiring a new wood tower proposed for Toronto recently, I noted that it "underwent an energy modelling exercise from which building systems were selected on the basis of energy efficiency and optimization." Architect Elrond Burrell, writing from New Zealand where he cannot get sued for publicly criticizing an architect in Toronto, responded to my Tweet:
"The project underwent an energy modelling exercise..." & then the architects thought fcuk it, who cares about energy efficiency & climate change anyway, we like 'modern design' so we'll just glaze the whole damn box?
