Kresge Auditorium from rear, looking toward I. M. Pei's Green Building ( MIT ) | Green Building tower at far left.

A member of Pei's staff returned for a visit several years later and confirmed that it had become dilapidated, which he and Pei attributed to the country's general unfamiliarity with deluxe buildings.

Pei's first proposed design included a large glass pyramid that would fill the interior with sunlight, meant to represent the optimism and hope that Kennedy's administration had symbolized for so many in the US.

Like most of Pei's work, the, three story building is a series of geometric forms: consisting of two curved wings, one mainly of glass and one mainly of masonry, set around a central atrium with a skylight that rises to become a low, conical glass tower.

Pei's style is described as thoroughly modernist, with significant cubist themes.

Pei's background in architecture was seen as a considerable asset ; one member of the committee told him: " If you know how to build you should also know how to destroy.

Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was " a palatial statement of the creative accommodation of contemporary art and architecture ".

Pei's work is celebrated throughout the world of architecture.

Pei's ancestry traces back to the Ming Dynasty, when his family moved from Anhui province to Suzhou.

Its unusual rock formations, stone bridges, and waterfalls remained etched in Pei's memory for decades.

Soon after the move to Shanghai, Pei's mother developed cancer.

Pei's choice had two roots.

Pei's father urged him to remain in the United States, and he worked for two years at the Boston engineering firm of Stone & Webster.

One of Pei's design projects at the GSD was a plan for an art museum in Shanghai.

Pei's design was based on a circular tower with concentric rings.

Pei's designs echoed the work of Mies van der Rohe in the beginning of his career as also shown in his own weekend-house in Katonah in 1952.

One block away, Pei's team also redesigned Denver's Courthouse Square, which combined office spaces, commercial venues, and hotels.

Pei's associate Araldo A. Cossutta was the lead architect for the plaza's North Building ( 955 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ), South Building ( 490 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ), and Center Building ( 475 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ; now the United States Postal Service headquarters ).

In 1955 Pei's group took a step toward institutional independence from Webb and Knapp by establishing a new firm called I. M. Pei & Associates.

As with previous projects, abundant green spaces were central to Pei's vision, which also added traditional townhouses to aid the transition from classical to modern design.

The tower's smooth aluminum and glass surface and crisp unadorned geometric form demonstrate Pei's adherence to the mainstream of 20th-century modern design.

" Pei's dissatisfaction reached its peak at a time when financial problems began plaguing Zeckendorf's firm.

The project differed from Pei's earlier urban work ; it would rest in an open area in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

The success of NCAR brought renewed attention to Pei's design acumen.

Pei's architectural team added more fill to cover the pipe and developed an elaborate ventilation system to conquer the odor.

Kennedy's assassination led indirectly to another commission for Pei's firm.

Pei's approach to the new Dallas City Hall mirrored those of other projects ; he surveyed the surrounding area and worked to make the building fit.

LOF countersued Hancock for defamation, accusing Pei's firm of poor use of their materials ; I. M. Pei & Partners sued LOF in return.

* Wenzel Wiesner, Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin

USA on 1 February 2007 ); Sonata for Organ ( premiered by Robert Green at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 22 August 2007 ); the opera, Far from the Madding Crowd, premièred at the Thomas Hardy Festival in July 2006 ; Mass for Unaccompanied Solo Voice, premiered by soprano Paula Downes at the MIT Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA on 6 March 2008 ; Sonata for Horn, Violin and Piano for the Brahms Trio Prague ( Monica Vrabcová, violin ; Ondrej Vrabec, Horn Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Wiesner, piano ), premiered at the Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague on 5 February 2008 ( a CD of this work has now been released on the Czech Philharmonic Artesmon label ); Finished Fields, a setting of four poems by Wilfred Owen commissioned by Jonathan Pugsley ( bass-baritone ) and Duncan Honeybourne ( piano ) and premiered in Weymouth, Dorset on 12 November 2008 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for pianist Duncan Honeybourne and the Central England Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Bradbury in Birmingham Town Hall on 1 March 2009, and given again by the same artists in Coventry Cathedral in July 2010 ; Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano for Peter Sheridan, premiered in 2009 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Sonata for Clarinet and Piano for clarinettist Angus Merion and Duncan Honeybourne, premiered in Salisbury, UK in January 2010.

Similarly, the rebel position at St Stephen's Green, held by the Citizen Army under Michael Mallin, was made untenable after the British placed snipers and machine guns in the Shelbourne Hotel and surrounding buildings.

In 2004, the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, D. C. was one of the first buildings to receive a " Green " certification from Global Green USA .< ref >

The U. S. Green Building Council has developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) program to encourage the design of high-performance buildings that will help protect our environment.

Nearby buildings include the Dresden State Theatre to the southwest, the Haus am Zwinger to the south, the Taschenbergpalais hotel to the southeast, the west wing of the palace with its Green Vault to the east, the Altstädtische Hauptwache to the northeast, the Semper Opera to the north and the former royal stables to the northwest.

* Green roofs that cool buildings with extra thermal mass and evapotranspiration.

Some early colonial buildings at the county seat on the Courthouse Green continue to be used for public purposes.

Having been an area of large houses and gardens as late as the 18th century, by about 1860 Bethnal Green was mainly full of tumbledown old buildings with many families living in each house.

The early 19th century brought modernisation, causing much of the area's rural charm, the River Fleet and the 18th century buildings to vanish, although pockets still remain, for example Little Green Street.

Other historical buildings may be seen on Wades Hill, leading north from The Green.

During the Confederate withdrawal, the railroad bridges in Barren County, the Bowling Green train depot and other railroad buildings were destroyed to hinder Union pursuit.

Loddon has many fine buildings ; from the 15th-century parish church of Holy Trinity, through the 18th-century " Loddon House " ( originally a mental institution ), to " Farthing Green House ", which is a good example of Georgian architecture.

However, many buildings such as the Green Dragon pub did survive and many of the houses in Damgate Street date back to 1400, although this is now masked by later brickwork.

Both buildings were built by George Green and George Hatcliff.

Another version has it that the name of the hamlet came about because of a famous trotting house named " Cottage Maid ", owned by Ed Green who owned the land where the station, the Marcus store and other buildings stood.

Ephraim is a village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States, known for its views of Eagle Harbor and the bluffs of Green Bay and its charming white buildings.

The present Methodist Chapel on the Green replaced two previous buildings on the site built in 1817 and 1819 respectively.

Green bans helped to protect historic 18th century buildings in The Rocks from being demolished to make way for office towers, and prevented the Royal Botanic Gardens from being turned into a car park for the Sydney Opera House.

Many buildings and structures within Kensal Green are listed.

Most of the older existing buildings of Kenilworth are on Castle Green, New Row and High Street ( formerly Alta Strata, meaning the high dry ground above the Abbey ).

The majority of buildings now on campus reflect Green Hall's architecture.

In the 1930s and 1940s, plans were made to demolish the building, and all other buildings on the block on which it is located ( which covered an area on Dawson Street, Molesworth Street, Kildare Street and the North side of St. Stephen's Green ), to enable the building of a new Dublin City Hall.

The uniqueness of the building, the quality of its workmanship and its central location in College Green, across from Trinity College, Dublin, made it one of Dublin's most highly regarded buildings.

The school's highest category score was an A in Investment Priorities, since Bryn Mawr invests in renewable energy funds, but the score was brought down by lower grades in categories like Green Building ( in which the school earned a D, since the campus currently features no green buildings ).