Up and down its lovely cobbled lanes and leafy historic streets, Alexandria is going green.
Excited, it seems to comply with this spring's unanimous City Council vote to adopt rather rigorous Green Building policy, new building and restorations in the city are feverishly incorporating sustainable materials like soapstone and bamboo into centuries-old townhouse redesigns; they're flooring old warehouse lofts with re-purposed wood from Shenandoah barns; they're devising futuristic passive-ventilation systems for delightful little carriage houses; and they're sluicing everything in healthy natural light and a southern exposure. It's the chic-green future of Virginia architecture with the grace of history's heft, and it's going on right now all over Alexandria.
So proud of their newly dubbed "EcoCity", Alexandria City Council has produced this map splashed with colors marking green building sites. http://alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/planning/info/MapGreenBuildingsJune2009.pdf
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