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19 April, 2010
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 foc...Read More
19 April, 2010
McDonough @ American University School of International Service
On April 19, Bill McDonough kicks of Earth Day week with a speech on campus at American University, where the new facility for the School of International Service, designed by William McDonough + Partners with Quinn Evans Architects, is nearing completion. Bill talk about "Waging Peace: The New SIS ...Read More
6 April, 2010
California Greenin’: David Johnson in Environmental Design+Construction on CalGreen Building Standards
The recently passed California Green Building Standards (CalGreen) will raise the baseline for new construction and have an enormous positive impact, given CalGreen’s widespread application. This new code from the California Building Standards Commission, which takes effect January 2011, will cont...Read More
16 March, 2010
NASA's Sustainability Base Tops Out
The steel structure is complete at the NASA Ames Sustainability Base, a William McDonough + Partners design. This is a major landmark in construction the project that is designed to be greenest in the federal portfolio. A ceremonial “topping out” event and beam-signing took place on March 12 t...Read More
15 March, 2010
Learning from the Netherlands
Diane Dale, director of Community Design, presented the firm’s recent Dutch community planning work at the Sustainability in Urban Communities: Exchanging Transatlantic Best Practices seminar at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC.
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