Gray Lady Stays Gray

Looks like the Times, which so often talks the talk, is having a little bit of a harder time walking the walk when it comes to their own, new, Renzo Piano/Fox & Fowle-designed building they’re getting ready to move into in 2007. While LEED certification generally seems about as compelling a conversation topic as our deep thoughts, in this case it just seems endemic of the larger problem with the whole LEED certification. In our limited environmental experience, we’ve found that it’s one of the architectural scenarios fullest of rhetoric and lackingest in reality.