"Wealthy real estate developers who might otherwise be coerced into adopting more stringent waste reduction techniques or buying more ecologically resilient building materials are offered a more appealing option by firms like BIG who provide an appearance of greenness that does not conflict with the corporate ethos. ...The phrase ... always seems to point to the... impossibility of making something inherently bad for the environment appear ‘green’ and responsible. The material formation of the architectural process has to be reckoned with, and so far firms like BIG have not been leading the way. ...The starchitect class has been fatally captured by the interests of high powered finance and industry that got humanity embroiled in the crisis of climate change in the first place. They are... our opponents in the struggle for a more just and resilient future."
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Alexander Hadley, Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing, Failed Architecture (Jan 28, 2020)
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