Urban Sequoia building for absorbing carbon, COP27 Sustainable Architecture, Eco New York City Tower
Urban Sequoia building to sequester carbon by SOM
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November 8, 2022
At COP27, SOM Presents Urban Sequoia NOW, a Carbon-Absorbing Building Design That Can be Constructed Today
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Locations – conceptual: NYC, USA / Lagos, Nigeria, Africa
Expanding upon the research introduced at COP26, SOM has spent the past year refining Urban Sequoia?a radical reimagination of the architecture and construction of buildings and cities?to create a design that is buildable right now.

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Urban Sequoia NOW building design for absorbing carbon Today at COP27, the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) presented Urban Sequoia NOW?a design, readily constructible today, for a building that will sequester carbon throughout its lifecycle. Created by a global interdisciplinary team at SOM, the design was presented by Partner Chris Cooper live in the Buildings Pavilion Auditorium.

There is an urgent need to rethink the design and construction of the built environment. Only three percent of the planet?s surface is covered by cities, yet the world?s urbanized areas generate about 75 percent of all global carbon emissions. And to accommodate increasing populations, the United Nations has predicted that another 230 million square meters of bui...