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Nation's Top Environmental Design Award Presented to William McDonough
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (October 20, 2004) – Environmental leader, architect and designer William McDonough last evening received a prestigious National Design Award for exemplary achievement in the field of environmental design. Initiated in 2000 to honor major achievements in American design, the National Design Awards are presented annually by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
The award to McDonough recognizes "excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement " and is the nation's highest design honor. Visit the National Design Awards for additional information about the award and both current and previous recipients.
McDonough and his companies are widely known for defining the leading edge of sustainable design. The designs honored by this award demonstrate tangible methods for achieving environmental progress, by design, with conventional budgets and commercial timelines.
Practicing a new conception of design-described as cradle-to-cradle design - McDonough and his companies go beyond retrofitting industrial systems to reduce the damage they create. Cradle-to-cradle design offers a framework in which the effective, regenerative cycles of nature provide models for wholly positive human designs - an approach being perceived by business as the next step in the Total Quality Management movement.
McDonough's work includes the first “green office” in the United States for Environmental Defense (ED) in New York (1985); offices for Gap Inc. in San Bruno, California that feature an undulating green roof (1993); the revitalization of Ford Motor Company's historic Rouge Center industrial complex, home to the world's largest green roof (2003) and the Herman Miller 'Mirra' office chair (2003).
About William McDonough And His Companies
McDonough is the Founding Principal of William McDonough + Partners. Along with Partners Russell Perry, Kevin Burke, Diane Dale and Allison Ewing, the design firm is practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the Co-founder and Principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of MBDC, a product and process design firm assisting companies to design profitable and ecologically intelligent products and systems. Both companies are based in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In 1996 McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development. In 2003 he received a Presidential Award in Green Chemistry for Shaw Inc's ecoworx™ carpet tiles.
For more information on William McDonough and his companies, visit:
McDonough.com
Contact: Kira Gould, Director of Communications
Email: media@mcdonough.com
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