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  • EHDA Grand Award: Nove Residences

    The San Francisco LEED-Platinum multifamily project mirrors the scale of the surrounding buildings.

  • June 2011 E-newsletter Editor's Note

    ECO-STRUCTURE's May/June issue poses the question of how our space influences our overall wellbeing and I’m curious to see how our audience responds.

  • Listening to the Land: Site Design Merges with Building Design

    The fundamental principals of landscape architecture and site design are now resonating with developers, investors, and corporate users and in turn, also are influencing building design.

  • Listening to the Land: Site Design Merges with Building Design

    The fundamental principals of landscape architecture and site design are now resonating with developers, investors, and corporate users and in turn, also are influencing building design.

  • McCollum Hall/ Harvard Business School

    Throughout McCollum Hall’s renovation, the project team analyzed and implemented available materials and practices that were sustainable. The project is in a dense urban area with many amenities within walking distance. A campus-wide irrigation audit identifies efficient fixtures to reduce the...

  • 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.

  • The Portico offers energy-efficient condominium living in Minneapolis.

    The quest to make The Portico condominium project energy-friendly started with a box of paper clips. Jon Hornig, vice president of Minneapolis-based Hornig Cos. was given one box of paper clips when he started at a large Wall Street firm several years ago.

  • Green Project from around the country.

    It's not easy being green when building affordable housing, according to the Cambridge, Mass.-based Homeowner's Rehab officials who designed a 40-unit affordable housing project called Trolley Square in Cambridge.

  • Building Green High Rises

    Even in the midst of New York's blustery, barren winter, the Big Apple is getting a little greener. The Albanese Organization and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. have broken ground on its newest green creation, a 253-unit apartment community in lower Manhattan's Battery Park City.