Environmental Innovations in Architecture

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-top-10-most-sustainable-architecture-projects-of-2016_us_5727856ee4b0b49df6abd9fe

In this article the author talks about the ten different buildings that are environmentally friendly in the United States. When the author lists the buildings, he shows a picture of the architecture and then he gives a small description about it. In the description he writes what the building is and what it is used for and he mentions why they are green. The reasons why these buildings are green is usually because they use renewable sources like solar energy and wind energy. The author also gives a statement as to what awards these buildings have received due to being green. When reading this article, I did not know that libraries and the most common places a person goes to were being transformed from a traditional building to an environmentally friendly building. One of the buildings listed in the article was H-E-B at Austin and I was shocked to see that they used solar arrays to transform solar energy into useful energy they need. They also were the first North American supermarket to use propane refrigeration system. An observation that I made when looking at the list is that most of the buildings that are environmentally innovated are located in California. If California is the most popular place to have eco-friendly buildings, how are they able to invest so much in creating these buildings? I really do think about what their strategies are because if they are able to do it then other places have a chance to do it. Also buildings in California seem to use the sun as their main source because I noticed that each of the buildings listed on the article show that they use solar panels or solar arrays or anything that has to do with the sun. A reason for this observation could be due to the fact that California gets a lot of sun because of their geographical location. Overall it is great that California is taking advantage of this fact and other places are doing the same. I think a big portion for which these types of buildings were made the way they were was because the architectures observed what renewable resource was available and used that knowledge to build a building.