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Solution of the Month
The Origen visitors center at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve

Function Follows Form: A conference center’s soaring roof multitasks to green effect
June 2009
In Los Angeles, Marmol Radziner designed a new facility for TreePeople, an organization that plants trees and promotes water conservation and sustainability throughout the city.

Image © Benny Chan

The Origen visitors center at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve

Sip Lightly: In Las Vegas, a refresher course in the preciousness of water
May 2009
Tate Snyder Kimsey designed The Origen, a visitors center for the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, to draw attention to the finite resource that makes the desert city habitable.

Image courtesy Tate Snyder Kimsey

Omi International Arts Center

Going Native: A contemporary visitor’s center rooted in local inspirations and resources
April 2009
How do you design a facility suited to showing contemporary art, but connected to regional traditions and local resources? Peter Franck and Kathleen Triem of F:T Architecture + Interiors solve the problem with a building for the Omi International Arts Center.

Photo © Mark Larosa

Federal Reserve Bunker

Coming Out of the Dark: A former Federal Reserve bunker protects a different kind of currency
March 2009
BAR Architects turns a former Federal Reserve bunker—it protected $3 billion in U.S. currency during the cold war—into a conservation facility for some six million films, sound recordings, videotapes, and other audio-visual materials from the Library of Congress.

Photo courtesy BAR Architects / © Rien van Rijthoven

A school facility shows off a variety of daylighting techniques

Light Fantastic: A school facility shows off a variety of daylighting techniques
Febuary 2009
When Barba + Wheelock and Winter & Company designed a Maine classroom building, they wanted to maximize passive solar heating—but blasting the interiors with distracting levels of daylight was not an option. Instead, the facility combines multiple daylighting strategies.

Photo © Brian Vanden Brinck

Water World: A giant rainwater cistern is transformed into the centerpiece of an Australian getaway
January 2009
Australia’s Paul Morgan Architects creatively incorporated a rainwater cistern into a vacation home. It not only supplies water for a number of uses and provides effective passive cooling in the summer; it also plays an important role in the house’s design and structure.

Photo © Peter Bennetts

Blue Ridge Parkway Regional Destination Center

Off the Wall: Trombe walls at a visitor’s center bask in the sunshine
December 2008
Lord, Aeck & Sargent reinvent a method of passive solar heating popularized in the 1960s for a project in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Photo © Jonathan Hillyer

Anshen + Allen’s exhibition “Greening the Patient Experience”

Natural Healing: An Exemplary Healthcare Environment Hits the Road
November 2008
Anshen + Allen’s exhibition “Greening the Patient Experience” offers an object lesson for making healthcare design more sustainable.

Photo © Desroches Photography

First Presbyterian Church

Park(ing) Garages
October 2008
This month, we profile a Portland, Oregon, firm’s solution for getting a church’s underground parking structure into the green spirit.

Photo © Michael Mathers

Renovation project by BNIM Architects

Daylighting for Deep Interiors
September 2008
This month, we profile a Kansas City, Missouri, renovation project by BNIM Architects and the unique solution that the firm devised for letting natural light penetrate deep into a million-plus-square-foot warehouse.

Photo © Farshid Assassi

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