The Greenest Building is the One Already Built.
NCSU Bookstore at night - Photo by John Morris
John Morris has a great article today about the imminent destruction of this awesome mid-century modern building. Unfortunately, unlike some of Milton Small‘s other buildings, this building is not on the National Register of Historic Places. This pretty much sums up the heart of the issue, regardless of the historic nature of this building:
LEED certification doesn’t mean much when you’ve used thousands of kilowatt hours of energy to destroy a building and then send tons of debris to a landfill.
NCSU Bookstore Canopy at night - Photo by John Morris
Milton Small’s firm is still in practice, headed up by G. Milton Small III. Hopefully they’ll take take a lead role in the charge to attempt to save this building, rather than it share the fate of the Catalano House.
After reading John’s article, please take the time to write a personal letter to both Campus Enterprises and the Board of Trustees, as will I. Check back this evening for a copy of that letter, and some more in depth thoughts on the state of Preservation in the midst of the current ‘Green Building’ trend, both in our state and the nation.