![]() ![]() No polluting, extractive governmental bully was going to shrivel his environmental dreams. Although the green facade was never built, it represented a typical confrontation by a fearless pioneer. This exterior portion would be a 20-story vertical garden, which would cool the building by shading it with flowers and plants that would change colors seasonally. When architect Emilio Ambasz won a 1998 competition to redesign the headquarters of Eni SpA, an oil company controlled by the Italian government, he recalled wagging a metaphorical finger at the companys president, saying, You owe it to Italy to do something green. Ambasz proposed a new facade for the building that would cover the rusting and leaking 1960s curtain wall and save millions by eliminating the need to relocate workers. A man of many hats, Ambasz practiced green architecture long before it was fashionable. The architect Emilio Ambasz at his apartment in New York on April 22, 2023. ![]()
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