According to Professor Dan Harvey of the University of Toronto, all-glass buildings should never be built. In a recent interview, Harvey details the (not-so-surprising) reasons why. Many new buildings are designed with primarily glass exteriors, lack operable windows and require extensive air conditioning, yet somehow manage to be considered green. Harvey:

There's no way you can make an all-glass building green. There's no such thing as a green SUV. You shouldn't be building SUVs in the first place; you shouldn't be building all-glass buildings in the first place. And no amount of high-tech or fancy stuff can turn an inherently bad design into a green building.

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