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Green with Style: Bringing Elegance to Sustainable DesignAround the corner from the famed Alte Pinakothek in Munich's museum district, evidence of architectural progress is becoming visible.
The building, the Brandhorst Museum, scheduled to open early next year, is on course to become Europe's most energy-efficient museum.
But the initial impact of the building is its beauty -- the shimmering flesh tones of its façade, which on closer inspection turn out to be created by 35,000 ceramic bars in dozens of colors, and its harmoniously balanced shape made up of assorted squares and rectangles.
The building is a sign of a dramatic maturation in sustainable architecture.
No longer a movement merely guided by good intentions, green architecture has become integrated into the discipline of aesthetic design.
It also serves as a stimulus to creativity and technology, as architects and engineers seek original solutions to sustainable design's inherent task of reducing a building's burden on the natural world.
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