We are delighted that Make It Right, the pro bono initiative in New Orleans that Bill McDonough and William McDonough + Partners have been involved with since its inception, is featured in John Cary's new book, The Power of Pro Bono, published by Metropolis Books. You can learn more about Make It Right here, check out [...]

“We are very proud of the role we had in this project,” says David Johnson, AIA, partner in William McDonough + Partners. “We were fortunate to join forces with Anshen+Allen, now part of Stantec Architecture, which has tremendous experience with evidence-based design in healthcare. We were honored to bring to that the Cradle to Cradle intelligence [...]

We at William McDonough + Partners are excited to celebrate the groundbreaking for the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay on October 27. The Medical Center is hosting a community event—free and open to all, a perfect tribute to this large project dedicated to safe and healthy environments dedicated to healing and health and committed [...]

William McDonough + Partners congratulates Michael Braungart, Douglas Mulhall, and EPEA for the publication of their new guide to Cradle to Cradle Criteria for the Built Environment. The architecture and community design teams at William McDonough + Partners are excited to be able to refer to this valuable document that clearly outlines much of the [...]

Mark Rylander, a Director with William McDonough + Partners, also teaches at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, as several of our associates do. (We love getting to know grad students this way, and keeping a foot in the academy is an important element of idea cross-pollination that is important for the field.) Last week, [...]

read all about it in this Metropolis POV blog post, "Telling the Stories"

ASLA has profiled Diane Dale extensively in its latest "interview with" series, and the piece digs in to the Cradle to Cradle thinking that informs community design by William McDonough + Partners. Nice timing: Diane was inducted into the ASLA college of fellows this fall. The interview also includes Diane's perspective on several of the [...]

On August 30, we told you about a Forbes.com video interview with Bill McDonough and the architecture work of William McDonough + Partners, specifically his thoughts about desining the ultimate office building. Now there's a new video from Forbes.com, with the rest of that interview, and in this one, Bill talks about the new Cradle to [...]

Last week, Oberlin College, inspired by Professor David Orr, held a celebration to mark the tenth anniversary of the completion of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, a William McDonough + Partners design. The event commemorated a project full of “firsts” which exports solar energy and renews its water among numerous other cradle [...]

In September, David Johnson, a partner in the firm who directs the San Francisco studio, traveled to Pakistan. He was going to learn about the scale of the flooding impacts there so that we could understand the needs and how we--as people, designers, a design firm, and part of the design community--might be able to [...]

Tomorrow, Wendy Schmidt, Chair of the new Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, will give a very important address about the positive future of the human enterprise at Oberlin College. Oberlin College, inspired by Professor David Orr, will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the completion of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies that my [...]

A P&G Sustainability Report includes a mention of the Romania manufacturing facility that William McDonough + Partners worked on: An excerpt: "Our sustainability efforts extend beyond our products and processes, informing the way we design our facilities. Before building a new site, we combine industry knowledge with a proprietary process that identifies the most meaningful [...]