Green Tower With a Mini Wind Farm - In Huston

Construction just began on what could be one of the most innovative office towers in the U.S. Located at 1501 McKinney Street in Houston, Discovery Tower is a 30 story office building that will cost upwards near $300 million to build. And as you can tell from the above renderings, the pinnacle was designed to have 10 wind turbines. But that's not just some fancy, green add-on to an otherwise generic building. Discovery Tower will be built to achieve LEED Gold certification from the USGBC.

The cost of this building is going to touch a very un eco friendly $300 million and with the work just recently started it means that it will not be that long before we begin to see things taking shape. Even tough the building is not due to be completed until the middle 2010. It is then that we will see the building in all of its glory.
It is not just the wind turbines that make this building green, but it’s the whole package of air filtration, water-efficient plumbing, and an energy efficient heating & cooling system that will make this a very eco friendly building.