NASA Sustainability Base on the cover of Buildings magazine

Buildings magazine featured the NASA Sustainability Base, for which William McDonough + Partners is the Design Architect, in its April issue (and on its cover). Here's an excerpt:

According to Kevin Burke, partner and director of practice for WM+P, McDonough wondered what would happen if they focused NASA’s intelligence on developing a project on earth (and joked that the project’s tagline would be “We Come in Peace”). But joke became reality as WM+P, collaborating with AECOM, worked with the NASA Ames Research Center to design Sustainability Base, which has high-tech, high-performance features to make it friendly to the environment and its occupants--all while reducing operating and maintenance costs.

“We’re metaphorically thinking of it as the first lunar outpost on earth,” says Zornetzer of the 50,000-square-foot, $23 million project, which should be completed by November or December (with full occupancy by March 2011).