Oak Forest Neighborhood Library: Houston, TX
What's a community to do when a beloved, but aging neighborhood library is deemed undersized, inefficient and inaccessible? The city of Houston pursued a renovation and expansion project that preserved...
View ArticleAlliance Center: Denver, CO
When the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado bought a century-old converted warehouse in 2004, the nonprofit had barely moved in before it started tinkering to improve building performance. The...
View ArticleDell Children’s Medical Center: Austin, TX
Designers sought to create a sustainable and healthy setting by incorporating ample daylight, low-emitting interior materials and a combined cooling and heating power plant that recovers waste heat....
View Article5 Houston Center: Houston, TX
After decades of virtually no new construction, downtown Houston is experiencing a revitalization. 5 Houston Center, owned by Wells Real Estate Funds, is a 27-story, 580,875-square-foot Class-A office...
View ArticleMercy Corps World Headquarters: Portland, OR
Responding to international crises isn’t easy when your colleagues are scattered across six separate office spaces. Mercy Corps found its solution in Portland, Ore.’s neglected Packer-Scott Building....
View ArticleGateway West Sustainable I: Brookfield, WI
As a developer of commercial building controls and automation systems, Environmental Systems Inc. wanted its new headquarters near Milwaukee, Wis., to showcase the potential energy and cost savings...
View ArticleDavid & Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters: Los Altos, CA
For the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, a headquarters that operated on a net zero energy basis wasn’t enough. The foundation also sought to create a building that was attractive, innovative,...
View ArticleThe Exploratorium: Pier 15, San Francisco, CA
Founded by particle physicist Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, San Francisco’s Exploratorium seeks to change the way the world learns with a focus on self-teaching and exploration. The hands-on science...
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Federal Center South Building 1202: Seattle, WA
Echoing the ever-changing waterway that passes the Seattle district headquarters of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the “oxbow” shape of the USACE’s new building represents the transformation from a...
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New Orleans BioInnovation Center: New Orleans, LA
Recognizing that the most important product of a research lab is not chemicals, but insights and innovation, designers of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center sought to maximize human performance with...
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