Josh Dorfman and our friends at Vivavi have partnered with The Sheldrake Organization to open up an Eco Pop-Up Store at the developer’s Riverhouse condo in Battery Park City. As you’ll recollect, the project is aiming for a LEED Platinum rating and lately cleared important light-green press after Leonardo Di Caprio bought an apartment in the 32-story, 264-unit tower. The store, which is a to the full-provided Unit 8D, side by side to the Riverhouse sales center, is capable to the public 7 days a week, and features pieces from 18 dissimilar green-apt designers, including Courageous Space, New Bamboo, and Animavi, as good as a Team 7 booming room and office furnishings from Knu Furniture. As Mr. Dorfman explained in a press release, the purpose of the partnership is to serve “Riverhouse residents and visitors [in noticing] well-to-do, fashionable and commodious ways to further dark-green their lifestyles. They don”t need to leave the building in order to be introduced to cutting-edge sustainable products, emerging design trends, and home innovations underway.” Vivavi is calling the Pop-Up Store the first of its kind within a residential building in New York City, and it’s certainly the first to exclusively feature green living products. I passed an afternoon a few weeks ago wandering through Battery Park City’s maze of light-green buildings and was real impressed with the Riverhouse. Its design team is a cast of all-stars- the exterior of the building was executed by Polshek Partnership Architects (the Clinton Presidential Center and the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Museum of Instinctive History), layouts and space planning from Ismael Leyva Architects, and internal finishes and mutual areas, including the lobby, by David Rockwell’s Rockwell Group. Dark-green features admit a geothermic heating and cooling down system, photovoltaic cells, low-toned-E double-pane windows, a dark-green roof, and Energy Star appliances. Twenty percent of making materials are recycled and forty percent of the full project materials were procured from local manufacturers. In addition, at a cost of $1 million, the building’s wastewater treatment plant will recycle water for the HVAC system’s cooling down tower, and the installation of 60kW microturbines will let cogeneration of electricity and heat. In addition to the Pop Up Store, one of the building’s commercial-grade units will domiciliate specialty constitutional café City Bakery. Mr. Dorfman is Vivavi’s CEO, author of The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Comfortable, Stylish, Green Bing, and host of the Sirius satellite radio program of the same name. Vivavi Opens up Advanced Gullible Furniture Store [1](LE) Riverhouse [2](gbNYC) ShareThis [3] [1] http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/pages/2008/07/vivavi_opens_mo.php [2] http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2007/04/09/monday-leedoff-architecture-and-sustainability-meet-at-riverhouse-in-battery-park-city/ [3] http://sharethis.com/item?publisher=6a37c728-bfb2-4757-b4cc-d22d71cc8f51&title=Vivavi+Teams+With+Sheldrake+to+Open+Gullible+Furniture+Store+at+Riverhouse&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenbuildingsNYC.com%2F2008%2F07%2F23%2Fvivavi-teams-with-sheldrake-to-candid-gullible-furniture-store-at-riverhouse%2F
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