Jennifer Schwab & NY Times tour “The Visionaire”
Featuring Sierra Club Green Home's own Jennifer Schwab
Jennifer Schwab takes NY Times editor, Tom Zeller Jr., on a tour of “The Visionaire”, a luxury, green high-rise in Battery Park, NY. The building is an uber-swanky, über-green — 251-unit, 35-story luxury condominium complex in Lower Manhattan that opened for business last fall. The building features Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) panels; a blackwater recycling system; a vegetation-rich “green” rooftop; amongst a host of other green features. The building just received its LEED Platinum Certification.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
This building is amazing! I’d really love to see it someday!
December 7th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Wow, I really like this video! I’ve never heard of the “Visionaire” but I do know that there a few apartment buildings where I live that are pretty sustainable, using recycled materials and renewable energy.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
It’s so great that apartment buildings are starting to think about sustainability. I wish that more home builders would do the same. A home already has a much larger carbon footprint, builders should be doing more.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Why was the “green” roof brown?!? Only teasing, I did like the building other than that. Maybe this video was shot in winter?
December 7th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Green can be fabulous too. If only I could afford it…
December 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I love these types of buildings!
December 7th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
What a fantastic building. I hope more like this will follow in its footsteps.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I love the video and I love the “Visionaire”!
December 9th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Oh my gosh! I’ve read about this building but it’s so awesome to get to actually see a video on it.
December 9th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
What an awesome building, kinda makes me wonder tho…how does this look among the older buildings of New York?