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One of our Affordable Housing properties. #architecture #Portland

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An Affordable Housing property we funded.  Has mix of Family, Senior, GrandParents raising grand & foster kids.

The property is probably the equivalent of Gold LEED (but is not certified.) It employs renewable materials throughout, has a water run-off system and bio swales; re-uses rain water run-off as visual amenity and landscape watering; uses communal kitchen/living spaces to cut down on individual interior apartment sizes; is near good public transportation; has porous paving (for water / rain percolation) using natural materials;  uses solar panels for electricity in common areas, and uses passive solar shading throughout; uses CFLs and other green friendly lighting.  I'm sure I'm not listing all the green features.

 

#architecture #Portland

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Chicago, Downtown

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Photos of the Harold Washington Library, The Tiffany Dome in the Chicago Cultural Center (CCC use to be the Main Chicago Library prior to 1978), Chicago Skyline Shots, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Water Tower, shots along Lake Shore Drive, Wabash Ave.,  Millennium Park.. Chicago, Illinois, USA. iPhone pics, mostly taken between 2009-2011.