ArchDaily has posted a story about the new building at the Washington, DC, campus of American University. We loved working with the School of International Services team and architect of record Quinn Evans. An excerpt-- "How can we design a building that inspires students to dream? This charge—articulated by the dean of the country’s largest foreign [...]

ArchDaily is the latest media outlet to pick up the story about NASA Sustainability Base, which is under construction at Moffett Field, California. Here's an excerpt-- "This exemplary energy performance will be achieved through several strategies and technologies, including an extensive geothermal system, high performance lighting, radiant cooling, intelligent building systems and on-site photovoltaic energy generation and [...]

David de Rothschild is out with a new book about his amazing Plastiki adventure. Bill McDonough has long admired David's efforts to help raise awareness about plastics in the oceans, and so was particularly honored to be invited to contribute a short essay to this new book, Plastiki: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans (Chronicle [...]

This is the question that Dean Lou Goodman, of the American University School of International Service team, asked William McDonough + Partners, design architects, and architect of record Quinn Evans Architects, as they collectively began a journey toward a new building for the Washington, DC, campus. This program is the United States' largest foreign service [...]

On February 17, Bill McDonough took the stage at the third of three State of Green Business Forums hosted in San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, DC. "We're always happy to be a part of the GreenBiz events," Bill said. "And this Washington event was especially exciting. I was happy to be speaking after the GSA [...]

Firm partner David Johnson will speak at the 2011 Business of Clean Energy in Alaska next month in Anchorage. He will discuss Cradle to Cradle as a design protocol that can change how we make things-- products, architecture, cities, and more-- and help us think about the human footprint in positive terms, rather than [...]

Our client Steve Zornetzer of NASA tells the story of Sustainability Base in this CNN story. We are so proud of this project and the collaborative team that created it. The project is due for completion this year. While it is true that it will be one of the best-performing buildings in the federal portfolio, [...]

Michael Braungart, the German chemist who co-authored Cradle to Cradle with our founder, William McDonough, and Adam Lowry, the founder of Method, which makes home cleaning products (several of which are Cradle to Cradle Certified) and has used Cradle to Cradle thinking as a guide, have written an op-ed piece for the San Francisco Chronicle [...]

Years ago, we had the good fortune to work with Herman Miller to design their GreenHouse factory/workplace in Michigan. This was a client with a vision the temerity to take it through implementation. We truly enjoyed this collaboration and are very proud of the results. We are delighted that Treehugger has seen fit to tell [...]

Last week, at the third of three GreenBiz.com State of Green Business Forums, this one in Washington, DC, Bill McDonough did a keynote "interview" on state with GreenBiz.com's Joel Makower, speaking right after the GSA administrator Martha Johnson spoke about her agency's green priorities (and how GSA leaders recently read Cradle to Cradle and are [...]

The Innovation Investment Journal covers the NASA Sustainability Base as an example of how NASA is "rethinking space on earth" and includes mention of the GSA RealProperty award for Innovation. As quoted in the article, NASA's Steve Zornetzer, associate director at NASA Ames, says: “This GSA award recognizes Sustainability Base as a model for future federal [...]

The latest news from William McDonough + Partners: a peek at our projects, our people, upcoming events, and the powerful Cradle to Cradle stories of our founder, William McDonough… Bill McDonough speaks this week at the State of Green Business Forum in Washington DC … Park 20|20– a full service Cradle to Cradle development– tops […]