{"id":645,"date":"2011-06-26T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=645"},"modified":"2011-07-02T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:57:04","slug":"the-hot-house-effect-in-public-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/06\/26\/the-hot-house-effect-in-public-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hot House Effect in Public Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KBS News tonight featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.kbs.co.kr\/news\/actions\/VodSpecial?cmd=index\" target=\"_blank\">fascinating report<\/a> on recent impressive public buildings in Korea that have been designed with little concern for environmental factors. The public buildings discussed include the Yongin City Hall and Yongsan District Hall in Seoul. These impressive towers of glass represent well Korea&#8217;s emergence as a cultural and technological power, but the mass of windows has turned parts of the buildings into saunas for employees. The report includes a scene with public officials using personal electric fans at their desks on top of the internal air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is one quite familiar to Americans, but we had hoped Korea might avoid this misstep.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-645 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/yong-in-city-hall.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/yong-in-city-hall-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-651\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-651'>\n\t\t\t\tYong-in City Hall\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/yongsan-district-office.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/yongsan-district-office-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-652\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-652'>\n\t\t\t\tYongsan district office\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KBS News tonight featured a fascinating report on recent impressive public buildings in Korea that have been designed with little concern for environmental factors. The public buildings discussed include the Yongin City Hall and Yongsan District Hall in Seoul. These impressive towers of glass represent well Korea&#8217;s emergence as a cultural and technological power, but &#8230; <a title=\"The Hot House Effect in Public Buildings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2011\/06\/26\/the-hot-house-effect-in-public-buildings\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Hot House Effect in Public Buildings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}