Top 10 Green Buildings Improve Surrounding Environment and Users’ Health
The American Institute of Architects' winning structures combine environmental sustainability with a focus on public health
Top 10 Green Buildings Improve Surrounding Environment and Users’ Health
- FULL GOODS WAREHOUSE A redevelopment project over a 26-acre abandoned industrial brownfield site in San Antonia, Tex., the Full Goods Warehouse transformed the old Pearl Brewery building into a mixed-use development that is both residential and commercial... Lake Flato Architects, Durand-Hollis Rupe Architects
- MERRITT SENIOR APARTMENTS Situated at the edge of Oakland’s Chinatown, this affordable senior housing development is one of the first construction projects planned near the Lake Merritt BART regional transit station, helping to ensure that residents have access to public transportation... Tim Griffith
- CLOCK SHADOW BUILDING The Clock Shadow Building in Milwaukee embraces social equity and environmental sustainability: while its design uses salvaged materials and natural heating and cooling strategies, the non-profit groups that it has as tenants furnish health services to the surrounding community... Tricia Shay Photography
- KEELING APARTMENTS The Charles D. Keeling Apartments, named for the scientist whose research first alerted the world to the possibility of the human impact on global atmospheric carbon, are located on the southwestern edge of the University of California at San Diego campus overlooking the region’s coastal cliffs... Tim Griffith
- NORRIS HOUSE The Norris House is marking the 75 th anniversary of the original Norris Project, a New Deal-era planned community development. In keeping with the original design, the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design maintained the development as a series of compact houses linked by footpaths and roads to a central common area... Ken McCown
