Published on Forbes June 17, 2014, by Peter Kelly-Detwiler: In March of this year, Method—a ‘pioneer of premium planet-friendly and design-driven home, fabric and personal care products,’ announced plans to build Method’s first manufacturing facility. It will be located in the Pullman area on the South Side of Chicago, a pretty tough neighborhood. The plant will […]
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What can a federal agency teach the private sector? Good design is good business. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — William McDonough + Partners is pleased to announce that Sustainability Base, the facility it designed for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has been named a Good Design is Good Business award winner by […]
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By William McDonough and Coert Zachariasse Published in Newsweek, June 5, 2014 In 2004, American architect and sustainability pioneer William McDonough met the Dutch developer Coert Zachariasse of Delta Development. Together, they brought forth Park 20|20, the first Cradle to Cradle®-inspired development in the world, located outside of Amsterdam. Cradle to Cradle posits that mankind can have a positive, restorative, beneficial […]
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By Sumit Singhal Published on AECCafe, May 13, 2014 B/S/H/ Inspiration House, Park 20|20 in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands by William McDonough + Partners Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (B/S/H/) is home to five of the top brands in household appliances – Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, Neff and Constructa – in the first building completed at Park 20|20. Designed as a […]
By George Calys Published in The Architect’s Newspaper, May 9, 2014 William McDonough & Partners designs a green home for Dropbox. COURTESY WILLIAM McDONOUGH + PARTNERS 333 Brannan Street Architect: William McDonough & Partners Client: Dropbox Location: San Francisco Completion: Summer 2015 Leading green architecture firm William McDonough & Partners has designed an ultra-sustainable office building for cloud storage company […]
By Lucy Scott Published May 5, 2014 in Urban Land Magazine When Coert Zachariasse made the switch from accountancy to real estate, it was because he wanted to be in an industry that was “bang in the center” of business. “The job was about looking in the rearview mirror, talking to clients about what happened last […]
