Built in 2002, London’s City Hall is not always popular. It is however a real ecological jewel.
Built in 2002, London’s City Hall is not always popular. It is however a real ecological jewel.
Regularly compared to a helmet, Darth Vader’s or Daft Punk’s, to an egg or a woodlouse, the building is sometimes criticized more openly as the former mayor Ken Livingstone, calling it a “glass testicle”.
Yet the building, which owes its original shape to its architect Norman Foster, is eco-responsible. Its shape allows it to capture the sun’s rays and uses cold water from the ground to ventilate itself. After being used for ventilation, this same water is injected into the toilet flushes. In the offices, the heat released by the computers and lights is recycled.
And since 2007, solar panels complete the energy gain. The result is that for a building of the same size, London City Hall consumes only a quarter of the energy.
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