In Brief (Green Edition): Marriott Builds LEED Protoype and Blair Kamin Gets Fed Up with Vanity Fair's 'World Architecture Survey'

A very miscellaneous collection of all-things-green here, so let’s just jump right in. First comes an announcement from the hotel chain Marriott that they’ve developed a new prototype for future building projects with full LEED certification. Working with the U.S. Green Building Council, the company plans to have 300 LEED-certified hotels by 2015, with this first using this prototype completed by 2012 in a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina. Less positive greening news comes in this story from the University of Kansas’ School of Architecture, Design and Planning, where students worked on a long-term project building impressive, energy efficient, LEED platinum homes in the Kansas City area, only to see them continue