William McDonough + Partners worked with a passionate family and a committed team of consultants to create a new home in Northern California. A first look at professional photography of the home is featured as Architectural Record’s House of the Month, with a story by Deborah Snoonian Glenn, who talked with William McDonough about how […]

On May 6 & 7, 2015, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in partnership with The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, will host the 2015 Sustainability Forum. The event joins influential leaders and thinkers, from different business, government and nonprofit organizations from around the world, to explore the impact of the circular economy on businesses. Through a […]

Updated: March 13, 2015 On February 18, 2015, at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, William McDonough will be giving a lecture, “Cradle to Cradle: Design for the Circular Economy,” part of the Oppenheim Lecture Series. Part of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Oppenheim Lecture Series was established by Patricia Oppenheim with her family in […]

William McDonough will be the featured guest at the March 12 gathering in Chicago, hosted by HOK, AIA Chicago, USGBC and Shaw Contract Group. “Material Health: Authentic Transparency and Optimization,” is the title of McDonough’s special keynote presentation on March 12, 2015, in Chicago.  As a global sustainability leader and architect, McDonough will discuss why material health […]

In the latest installment of the The McDonough Conversations, William McDonough and Joel Makower discuss the major themes of the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos that took place last month, in a two part interview. Many programs that took place at Davos 2015 were related to Cradle to Cradle and the circular economy.  The number of sessions […]

On April 7, 2015,  William McDonough will lead a fireside chat for Bridge – a professional development program with startups including Dropbox, Khan Academy, Fitbit, Square, and many more.  The talk will provide an opportunity for members of the design community who represent some of the top companies in Silicon Valley, to connect with McDonough.  Past speakers for […]

Climate change, human rights, health and inequality, were the major topics of discussion at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos. A strong emphasis was placed on the need for more solutions and ideas to counter these larger issues. As the WEF came to a close, participants were asked to share ideas based on the various […]

On April 9, 2015, William McDonough will deliver the keynote address at Shell’s Powering Progress Together conference in Detroit, Michigan. By 2050, three quarters of the world will live in urban centers; collectively, these cities will consume as much as 80 percent of the global energy supply. So how can we work better together today, […]

William McDonough + Partners teamed with Stantec (formerly Anshen+Allen) to design the new Medical Center at Mission Bay for University of California San Francisco (UCSF). “On Sunday, February 1, the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center officially opens an 878,000-sf, six-story complex at UCSF’s 60.2-acre Mission Bay research campus that includes three state-of-the-art […]

A leader in optimized resource management, Veolia, published a holiday gift guide “The circular guide to Christmas,” offering suggestions for environmentally conscious gifts.  William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s book The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability–Designing for Abundance is among the gifts suggested. View the full list of gifts on The circular guide to Christmas here. Find more […]

William McDonough and Joel Makower talk soil in the latest installment of The McDonough Conversations.  According to McDonough, there are two parts to keeping soil free of toxins: detoxifying and changing the way we make things.  “We want to go to a global-scale packaging protocol that allows things to either heal soil or give soil […]

By Vani Bahl, Published December 8, 2014 CHENNAI: The image of a ‘factory’, as propagated by the Industrial Revolution, is that of a smokestack polluting the sky, hot and dangerous exposed assembly lines, and dark and dingy manufacturing houses. Hero — the world’s largest manufacturer of two wheeled automotives — is all set to revolutionise […]