Introducing the First Annual Green Awards
Here at gb&d, we’re always looking to bring our mission, “to create a more sustainable world,” to life. As we geared up for this issue, and with it,…
Building Envelopes
building envelopes
Ruthless Efficiency
When Bryan and Stephanie Farris moved into their custom-build home near Portland, anyone sending housewarming gifts was better off making a personal delivery.…
Family Ranch Revamp
It is not an uncommon promise in hearts of the ambitious, good-natured public to reward one’s deserving parental guardians with the opulence of high living…
An Atypical Building in a Typical Office Park
E.J. Meade, principal architect at Arch11, calls the new Pearl Izumi corporate headquarters a fragmented design barn. That might not be the most glitzy…
C3 Prefab
Armed with some lessons learned after designing Chicago’s first green prefab house, the C3, Jeffrey Sommers of Square Root Architecture and Design created…
Green With Envy
Envy the Pacific Northwest. Due to its extensive hydroelectric power generation, the region has remarkably inexpensive energy, and in many locales, geothermal…
Kiln Apartments
When it came to the design of the Kiln Apartments in Oregon’s North Portland neighborhood, GBD Architects aimed high. Just how high? Consider this: the…
Chicago’s Power Players
As the saying goes, information is power. And as far as smart electric grids go, power information can be, well, powerful. Fundamentally, smart grids apply…
Ameresco Helps UIC Leverage Energy Savings
University of Illinois’s Chicago campus signs on to ‘cost-neutral’ upgrade of laboratory buildings…
Jonathan Milikowsky Science and Technology Building
Maryann Thompson designs a solar-powered learning environment…