This stunning Arlington, Virginia house is the first Virginia home to gain LEED Platinum certification. Although it has 3,825 square feet, annual heating and cooling costs are $180 and $125 respectively. The house also has a green roof and water catchment tanks to retain rainwater.
Designed by Kaplan Thompson Architects, the house is located in Arlington and was built by Metro Green.
Read the full Jetson Green story: First LEED Platinum Home in Virginia.
(Images: Parker Daniell)
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Comments (11)
Dumb question, but I assume those heating/cooling costs are per year?
If it's per year, that's really low consumption.
The roof level has such nice flooring, seems like a waste...
It does state "annual heating and cooling costs" . . . so I would presume that it would be per-year. WOW. Wish I could say the same for my place. That's more a per month total for me! (when heating/cooling is running full time). *sigh*
Regardless of efficiency; almost 4,000 square feet is not green unless it's a dormitory. LEED really needs to change their ratings to account for size and the accompanying raw material resource use.
I drove by this house when my GPS got me lost 2 weeks ago! Definitely more beautiful in person than in the pic and also more stunning since it's in a neighborhood of older, traditional homes.
Price reduced $125,000...
http://www.trulia.com/property/1077525808-5803-16th-St-N-Arlington-VA
stunning!
I don't know if it has been covered on this blog or not, but the RainShine house in Atlanta is a beautiful LEED Platinum home as well!
http://rainshinehouseatlanta.blogspot.com/
I guess I have a different concept of what's considered environmentally responsible, but it's hard for me to see why one family needs 4,000 square feet of space. And 4.5 bathrooms? Have we become a country where every child expects his own bathroom and can't share with one or two of his siblings?
Building a mansion and slapping on a few green features is not being a good steward of our planet.
Sorry: this is an example of greenwashing. And, selfish and inconsiderate to boot. It's a massive, overscaled structure that dwarfs the surrounding homes in a modest neighborhood.
How is that being responsible?
Agreed. Beautiful Architecture but very excessive.