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The towers house not one but three museums that showcase Taiwan’s past, present and future. Visitors to the exhibitions will also be able to enjoy public spaces like a water plaza, an outdoor theatre, a green house, and an event plaza. Other portions of the building will be made into high-end residences, an aviary for endangered bird species, restaurants and even a vertical farm. At the top of the towers, two floating podiums and a sky-walk suspended between them give visitors the chance to “walk in the sky.”

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Scotland has a long history of whisky production and now the industry is brewing up a green future as drinks giant Diageo recently unveiled their £40 million environmentally friendly Roseisle Distillery in Elgin. As the first distillery to be built in Scotland in 30 years, this innovative project designed by Austin-Smith: Lord Architects combines modern environmental technologies with traditional distilling techniques. The building has been a awarded a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ award, so we can certainly say ‘Slange Var’ to that! (Scottish dialect for cheers!)

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Shimizu Corporation is researching the construction of artificial islands in the equatorial ocean that would essentially be self-sufficient, carbon-negative cities with zero waste. Measuring one kilometer high and wide, the environmentally friendly cities of the future feature urban, arable, and marine zones and can scale efficiently as their populations increase.

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Norwegian architectural firm, Snøhetta, recently unveiled their proposal for a new cyclic particle accelerator, called the “Max IV”, at the Max-Lab to be built in Lund, Sweden. The cylindrical, Möbius strip inspired national laboratory will include state of the art technology able to propel charged particles at high speeds. And apart from being a site dedicated to high-tech research, the form of the building was also developed using a high-tech modeling program focused on minimizing solar gain on the facade.

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