5. Turning ‘monstrous carbuncles’ into biofuels
Editor’s Note: Price Charles said it more than 20 years ago, describing a building addition as “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend.” It prompted British architects to find new avenues of creativity and many bad buildings, as a result, were not built. But what do you do with the “ugly monster”, the BT Tower? One student came up with a novel beautification idea: turn it into a massive bioenergy plant. Kudos for originality.
In the UK, a design student at the Royal College of Art wants to transform London’s BT Tower into a pollution collection system that in turn produces methanol from the carbon emissions collected. The proposed system would produce 100 metric tons of methanol annually. The student wants to see the system replicated across all skyscrapers.
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