Historic Preservation

  • One Phoenix Row

    Insurance provider The Phoenix Co.’s One American Row building in Hartford, Conn., recently achieved LEED for Existing Buildings Silver certification from the USGBC.

  • Reborn on the River

    The revitalization of a riverside indutrial hub continues as a 19th-century building is transformed into the Beacon Institute of Rivers and Estuaries' Center for Environmental Innovation and Education

  • Reconciling Preservation and Sustainability

    The sustainability and the historic preservation movements share a common goal—being mindful stewards of valuable but finite resources.

  • Warehouse Finds New Life as Sustainable Lofts

    Bringing older buildings up to current environmental standards represents a great opportunity.

  • A Warehouse Renovation Blends Innovative Architecture and Sustainable Practices

    Aidlin Darling Architects and Matarozzi/Pelsinger Builders elevated an old warehouse to create a vibrant, mixed-use project called 355 Eleventh Street.

  • Changing Historic Preservation Guidelines

    Many historic preservationists believe that the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system must be changed to better reflect the ecological, economic, and cultural value of preserving older buildings.

  • Home On The Range / Billings, Mont.

    As Montana’s only LEED Platinum-certified structure recognized by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council, this 8,300-square-foot (771-m2) building houses several nonprofit environmental groups.

  • Historic Bank Building Goes Green

    Last year, HGA Architects and Engineers, Minneapolis, transformed the iconic First National Bank building in downtown St. Paul, Minn., into a more desirable multi-tenant office building.

  • Art Museum Upgraded

    Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, upgraded its Bowdoin College Museum of Art to care for its valuable art collection.

  • A Historic Building Earns Two LEED Platinum Awards

    2008 Evergreen Awards Second Place Winner. If one of the original occupants of the 1928 Mutual Building in Lansing, Mich., was to walk into the space today, the experience would be both familiar and astounding.