By Nikki Gloudeman Published February 07, 2014 on Greenbiz.com “Why make something you can’t sell?” This is the question William McDonough posited about waste during the 2014 Executive Sustainability Forum webcast, hosted on GreenBiz and presented Jan. 30 by Waste Management. Traditionally, businesses have strived to reduce or eliminate the waste they produce. But McDonough, influential designer, architect, entrepreneur and co-author […]

  Kilroy Realty Corporation announced the signing of a 12-year lease with Dropbox, a cloud storage and file-syncing company, for the 333 Brannan Street office property, designed by William McDonough.  Located in San Francisco’s historic South of Market district, the 182,200 square foot property is currently in its second month of construction.  The 333 Brannan Street property […]

On January 8, 2014, William McDonough joined a panel at the United Nations for the 6th Meeting, Seventh Session of the General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. McDonough is the first of 3 panellists, opening the session at 0:03:00. He contributes to the discussion throughout, with closing remarks at 1:35:40. Watch the United Nations webcast here. The […]

Milan, January 8th 2014 – Hines Italia SGR, a leader in the management of Italian and international real estate funds, announced today that Google has signed a 5,000-square-meter (53,800-square-foot) lease for its Italian offices at Porta Nuova, the Hines mixed-use development in Milan. Google will consolidate its Italian operation in the Porta Nuova Isola building, […]

San Francisco, CA – December 19, 2013 – William McDonough + Partners designs 333 Brannan to deliver a South of Market appeal while offering all of the advantages of new, green, energy efficient modern office space for Kilroy Realty Corporation. Today, Mayor Ed Lee joined the breaking-ground ceremony to kickoff construction for the 180,000 square foot, which will […]

Excerpt from Joel Makower’s recent interview with William McDonough on Greenbiz.com: This is the latest in a periodic series of one-on-one interviews with William McDonough(@billmcdonough), renowned designer, architect, author and entrepreneur, looking into his rich, kaleidoscopic professional world. McDonough has been at the forefront of many of sustainability’s most important trends: green buildings, closed-loop systems and Cradle to Cradle […]

A new fellowship seeks to bring young designers and engineers together to reinvent the economy with a sustainable philosophy by William McDonough, published in the Guardian December 6, 2013 In a watershed event in the emergence of the circular economy, hundreds of business leaders, educators and entrepreneurs joined to celebrate the launch of The Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship. The […]

Kira Gould, director of communications for William McDonough + Partners, spoke at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild conference in Philadelphia. She was on a panel in the Master Speakers series, following a keynote by Dr. Richard Jackson. Here are excerpts from an article on the event: Dr. Richard Jackson, professor and chair of environmental […]

By Joel Makower Published November 14, 2013 This is the first in a periodic series of one-on-one interviews with William McDonough, the renowned designer, architect and entrepreneur, looking into his rich, kaleidoscopic professional world. McDonough has been at the forefront of many of sustainability’s most important trends: green buildings, closed-loop systems and Cradle to Cradle design, among others. I’ll […]

Excerpt from Forbes: The Upcycle And Waging Peace Through Commerce: William McDonough Wants Us To Design Our Way To Abundance Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Contributor William McDonough wants people and businesses to start thinking in a whole different way about how and why we do things. Instead of thinking only about limitations and how to minimize the damage […]

Excerpt from Marc Stoiber's November 5 post: Innovation is a hot topic. You hear daily about its democratization, globalization and acceleration. But in the all the breathless wonder at our speed of progress, one question seldom gets asked: is every innovation good for us? This is where the concept of principled innovation comes in. I first heard the term from William McDonough, with [...]

Excerpt from gbdmagazine.com: No other name is as synonymous with the modern day sustainability movement as William McDonough. The architect, author, designer, and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners is world-renowned for his creation of cradle-to-cradle design, an economic, industrial, and social framework developed with chemist Michael Braungart that helps create systems that are both [...]