ENVIRONMENTAL VIEWS

  • Improving Performance

    Following our mission of showcasing performance excellence, we put ourselves to the test to see how Eco-Structure can best serve its readers

     

ECOCENTRIC

  • Where The Wild Things Are

    Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center updates its 1975 facilities, sited on a decommissioned missile base, to include sustainable features

     

FEATURE

  • Industrial Revolution

    Looking at the final results, it’s hard to believe that more than 75 percent of the exterior structure was saved in this renovation of an industrial building. While architecturally dramatic, the transformation is equally impressive for its emphasis on sustainability.

     

  • Injecting New Life

    A 1970s laboratory building gets an upgrade alongside a high-performing addition at the University of Cincinnati

     

  • 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

     

ECOMMERCIAL

  • Navy Federal Credit Union

    The country's largest credit union for active and retired U.D. Department of Defense personnel goes green

     

  • Group Goetz Architects Corporate Office

    Washington, D.C.-based architectural firm Group Goetz Architects receives LEED Platinum certification for its home in Georgetown

     

  • National Grid Corporate Offices

    Designed by Sasaki Associates, the Waltham, Mass., corporate office of National Grid becomes the second single-tenant building to go double platinum with LEED CI and LEED CS

     

DEEP GREEN

FLASHBACK

  • Work in Progress

    At Seattle's Pier 56, Mithun set about instilling a sense of place while creating a sustainable future. Ten years after move-in day, the office continues to act as a living laboratory.

     

GREENSCENE

  • Upcoming Awards

    The One Prize Competition, “Mowing to Growing: A Design Competition for Creating Productive Green Space in Cities”

     

  • Sustainability, Brick by Brick

    A multilevel house featuring suites for diplomats and their families in Mexico; a center for visiting dignitaries in Maryland; a self-supporting scheme for interlocking bricks that would not require mortar; and a brick featuring an outer leaf panel designed to produce curvilinear shapes were among...

     

PERSPECTIVES

  • Past, Present, and Future

    Working in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, the non-profit organization Historic Green aims to help the neighborhood become the nation's first zero carbon community

     

ECO-TECH

  • Blue is the New Green

    A look at the looming water crisis and what it may mean for architects, contractors, engineers, and technology suppliers

     

INNOVATIONS