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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures achieves LEED Gold certification

The nation’s first large-scale museum devoted entirely to filmmaking has earned LEED Gold certification months...

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NYC’s Bronx 1 charter school achieves LEED Silver

New York City-based CTA Architects’ sustainable renovation and expansion of the Bronx Charter School for Excellence...

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Architecture students design a LEED Platinum home with an ADU in Kansas

Every year as part of Studio 804, University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design graduate students design...

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LEED Gold office in Austin offers wearables to promote employee wellness

The Texas Mutual Insurance Company's new headquarters in Austin, Texas's Mueller Development has earned both LEED...

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LEED Platinum-seeking home in Cincinnati asks $3.25 million

Near the border of Ohio and Kentucky, a stunning sustainable home has hit the market for $3,249,000. Designed by...

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Miami Beach Convention Center receives a stunning LEED Silver makeover

Global design firm Fentress Architects and Arquitectonia have given the 1950s-era Miami Beach Convention Center...

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SUNY New Paltz Engineering Innovation Hub achieves LEED Gold

In New York’s Hudson Valley region, the public liberal arts college SUNY New Paltz has earned a LEED Gold certification...

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Sculptural aluminum roof keeps Cal Poly building cool

California State Polytechnic University's (Cal Poly) Pomona campus recently welcomed a new gateway building that...

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LEED Platinum Stockman Bank harvests rainwater and solar power in Missoula

In Montana’s historic downtown Missoula, a Stockman Bank branch has recently earned LEED v4 Core and Shell Platinum...

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Solar-powered Lowell Justice Center will be Massachusetts’ first LEED Platinum courthouse

Half-an-hour north of Boston, the Massachusetts city of Lowell has recently welcomed the new Lowell Justice Center,...

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Silver Oak becomes world’s most sustainable winery

After a devastating fire ravaged the Silver Oak Winery in California’s Napa Valley nearly 15 years ago, the owners...

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LEED Platinum-certified Half Moon Bay Library targets net-zero energy

At three times the size of its predecessor with a recently minted LEED Platinum certification, California’s Half...

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LEED-seeking apartments house formerly homeless families in San Francisco

David Baker Architects has completed 222 Taylor, an affordable housing complex in San Francisco’s Tenderloin...

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Charles Library boasts one of Pennsylvania’s largest green roofs

Contemporary, sustainable and welcoming, Temple University's new Charles Library in Philadelphia raises the bar...

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Pittsburgh’s MuseumLab for children achieves LEED Gold

MuseumLab, one of Pittsburgh’s most creative and innovative youth learning spaces, has earned LEED Gold a year...

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3XN unveils LEED Platinum-seeking Forskaren innovation center in Stockholm

Danish architecture firm 3XN has won a design competition for Forskaren, a new mixed-use innovation center for...

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LEED Gold-targeted library and community park has otherworldly appeal

Toronto-based architecture firm RDHA has completed the Springdale Library and Komagata Maru Park, a new inclusive...

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LEED Platinum Akademeia High School caters to millennials

When Medusa Group Architects was tasked to design a high school in Warsaw, the Polish interdisciplinary...

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LEED Platinum high-rise in Toronto promotes sustainable living

Aqualina at Bayside, a new multistory residence in Toronto, has just earned LEED Platinum certification — a first...

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LEED Gold-certified Azurmendi crowned “World’s Most Sustainable Restaurant”

Three-star Michelin restaurant Azurmendi has once again been crowned the “World’s Most Sustainable Restaurant”...

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Eco-friendly spiritual living at Holy Wisdom Monastery

A basket of bread comes around, and the person next to me removes a chunk, holds it up and says, “Bread of life.”...

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LEED Gold-targeted office mimics High Line via lush greenery

New York City’s award-winning High Line has attracted yet another sculptural building to its side — 512 West...

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LEED Gold-targeted Ottawa library will honor local history

After nearly a year of public input by Canadians from coast to coast, Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects...

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LEED-Platinum learning lab is a beacon of sustainability

In a bold move to embrace environmental education, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine recently welcomed the Roux...

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San Francisco library boasts a green roof and LEED Gold status

When Hacker Architects redesigned a historic, 1969 branch library in the southeastern Bayview neighborhood of San...

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Century-old building is reborn as a LEED Platinum home in San Francisco

When architect Jonathan Feldman of Feldman Architecture began remodeling his home in San Francisco in the early...

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ZHA unveils LEED Gold-targeted OPPO headquarters in Shenzhen

Zaha Hadid Architects has won an international competition to design Chinese tech giant OPPO’s new headquarters...

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LEED Platinum-targeted Santa Monica apartments are powered by solar energy

Los Angeles-based design practice KFA Architecture has recently completed Pico Eleven, a new multi-unit residential...

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White, latticed exoskeleton wraps a LEED Platinum office in Madrid

On the side of a large roundabout in Madrid, Spanish architecture firm Rafael de La-Hoz has realized the eye-catching...

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BIG’s LEED Gold-seeking school in Arlington features a cascade of green terraces

After five years in the making, BIG has completed The Heights, a new public school building in Arlington, Virginia...

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