William McDonough + Partners News

November 2005
	William McDonough Named "Big Thinker of the Year" by Esquire Sarah Schafer and Anne Underwood have offered an in-depth progress report on WM+P's work in China in the current International Edition of Newsweek. They write, "McDonough's projects in the village of Huangbaiyu and six major cities are China's biggest experiment in ecologically sound development. If all goes well, his brand of ecodesign could serve as a model for China's new urbanism." Read the Newsweek International article -- "Building in Green" >>
	Honor Award for Bernheim Arboretum Visitor Center WM+P and its collaborators at the Lexington, Kentucky-based firm of Barnette Bagley Architects, recently earned top honors in the 2005 Kentucky AIA Design Awards. The jury described the Bernheim Arboretum Visitors Center as a "project of understated elegance and admirable restraint [that] continues to unfold and reveal itself at each glance." Their comments also gave a nod to the Arboretum's primary goal of connecting people with nature, recognizing the building's "very successful response to an admirable mission.” Read The Courier-Journal article >>
	Designing our way out of trouble By way of introducing William McDonough's concept of Cradle to Cradle Design, reporter Holly Yeager of London's Financial Times last week profiled WM+P residential work, including the Pine Island residence at left. Says McDonough, "I think we're only now realising that it's time for us to nurture again." Read FT.com's "Designing our way out of trouble" >> Free registration or subscription required for full article
Cameron Diaz "Stands In" for William McDonough at Stanford mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, continued its surprise "Stand In" event series this morning at Stanford University, as mtvU cameras followed actress Cameron Diaz and William McDonough surprising Stanford's "Maintaining Sustainable Building Projects" class. Diaz greeted the fifty unsuspecting students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program as their "Stand In" professor, discussing the sustainable development movement and civil engineering techniques being used to help protect the environment. Watch the episode when it premieres on mtvU's new broadband network mtvU †ber at 12:00PM EDT/9:00AM (PDT) on Tuesday, November 1. William McDonough Elected as Design Futures Council Fellow Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. Read FORTUNE's "Bullish on the Big Easy" >>
UPCOMING EVENTS October 21 William McDonough speaks at The Water's Edge at Stroud Water Research Center in Kennett Square, PA October 24 William McDonough presents at the 9th Annual Heinz Conference on Women's Health and the Environment in Boston October 25 William McDonough keynotes at the Cleantech Venture Forum VIII in Washington, DC November 2 William McDonough appears in Denver at the Brownfields 2005 National Conference in Washington, DC November 6 William McDonough addresses other design luminaries at the 4th Annual Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design in San Francisco November 11 Diane Dale, Director of Community Design, presents on "Cradle to Cradle Community Planning in China" at Greenbuild in Atlanta Get complete information on William McDonough's upcoming appearances at McDonough.com.
As always, we look forward to sharing more news as it happens. William McDonough + Partners Architecture and Community Design 700 E. Jefferson St. Charlotesville, VA 22902 journal@mcdonough.com