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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Classical architecture, LEED, Library, Refurbishment / Extension, Tom Eliot Fisch, USA architecture
As part of the San Francisco Public Library’s Branch Library Improvement Program, Tom Eliot Fisch and Paulett Taggart Architects renovated the historic Golden Gate Valley Branch Library in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. Completed in 1918 as a Carnegie library, the two-level brick and terra cotta Beaux-Arts structure was designed by Ernest Coxhead in the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior Tags: Glass, LEED, Lobby, Swimming pool, USA architecture
The City of Dallas, Matthews Southwest and Omni Hotels & Resorts appointed a team of leading experts in sustainability and green buildings to create a luxury convention center hotel for Dallas, designed with innovative features and constructed in a process to meet the highest industry certification standards possible. The fine work of the entire team [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Transportation Tags: David Wakely, LEED, Showroom, Valerio Dewalt Train
When Silicon Valley auto dealer Adam Simms chose a site on busy El Camino Real for his Fisker Automotive and McLaren Automotive dealerships, the new buildings had to stand out in the same way that the manufacturers’ cool, cleanly tailored vehicles stand out from the competition. Valerio Dewalt Train Associates designed two showrooms, each designed [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: David Wakely, LEED, School, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, USA architecture
This is a new student commons at an independent high school in Marin, California. Designed by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, the Branson School Student Commons gives students a much-needed gathering space with an unusual degree of connection to the outdoors. Sited in a narrow glen between upper and lower campuses, the structure includes a dining [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: LEED, Library
Designed by THA Architecture in collaboration with Karin Payson A+D, this new library replaces an outdated facility, completed in 1969, with an enhanced neighborhood branch that celebrates the community’s unique history and culture. The 9,000-square-foot library is part of San Francisco’s voter-approved Branch Library Improvement Program, and is one of only eight new facilities from [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architecture Award, Cook+Fox Architects, LEED, Perforated, USA architecture
Live Work Home Achieves LEED Platinum Certification NEW YORK, NEW YORK – November 21, 2011 – Live Work Home, a winning design proposal from Cook+Fox Architects in the From the Ground Up Competition in Syracuse, New York, has been awarded LEED-NC (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction) Platinum certification, the highest possible [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Color architecture, LEED, Mexico, SPACE, Stair, Workplace
Upon entering the space we find an open reception area in a circular form which embraces you as you open the elevator door, this reception area is flanked by two stained-glass windows in blue tones with abstract graphics of medicines and when looked at closely these are infinitely deep. At the center and as the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Concrete, David Wakely, LEED, Library, Noll & Tam, USA architecture
The innovative features in this new library include a daylight-filled floor plan, a natural ventilation tower, and the use of insulated concrete panels to keep the interior cool in the warm summer months. The library sets a new standard for sustainability in a civic building, and meets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold [...]
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Category: Education, Events/News Tags: LEED, LEO A DALY
US Green Building Council Awards Prestigious LEED® Platinum Certification to LEO A DALY-Designed FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science Building First Academic Building in Southeast Florida to Achieve LEED® Platinum Certification The U.S. Green Building Council awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)® Platinum certification to the recently completed Florida Atlantic University [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Forward, Green architecture, LEED, Portugal
Green Building – Madan Technology Center stands as a benchmark for sustainability and energy efficiency within the national context. The project makes recourse to innovative solutions to meet the demands of a new environmental paradigm. Green Building – Madan Technology Center was planned by the Forward architectural firm following a commission by the Association of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, David Baker, Green architecture, LEED, USA architecture
This project works on every level, creating a haven for its occupants without forgetting to engage its communities. The team preserved embodied energy by artfully repurposing an existing building. Variety and articulation of different building and unit types are expressed both on the exterior facing the street, as well as the interiors facing the public [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Architectural Resources Group, David Wakely, LEED, Refurbishment / Extension, USA architecture, Winery
The Jackse Winery, one of St. Helena’s oldest wood-framed winery buildings, has recently been restored and expanded to serve as the permanent offices for the Napa Valley Vintners, a non-profit organization responsible for protecting and promoting the smaller wineries in this premier winegrowing region. Built between 1905 and 1913 by Austrian immigrant and vintner Stephen [...]
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