Weatherwatch: glass skyscrapers are worst energy offenders

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Big windows and high air-conditioning needs mean radical new approaches are needed

Whatever you think of skyscrapers, they guzzle energy. One study revealed that electricity use per square metre of floor area was nearly two and a half times greater in high-rise office buildings than in low-rises .

 

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I thought we went through all this before. I suppose they all keep scads of lights on at night, too.

Obviously...

Good. Lets stop building them and go back to traditional architecture. Glass prefab towers look shit.

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