Saudi University, Yale's Kroon Hall Among AIA's Top 10 Green Building Picks
<p>The 5.3 million-square-foot King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the net zero energy Kroon Hall at Yale, a science center at a California school and a house designed for New Orleans' hurricane-devasted Lower Ninth Ward are among the Top 10 green building projects selected this year by The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment.</p>
The 5.3 million-square-foot King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the net zero energy Kroon Hall at Yale, a science center at a California school and a house designed for New Orleans' hurricane-devasted Lower Ninth Ward are among the Top 10 green building projects selected this year by The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment.
The Saudi university, Kroon Hall, Michael J. Homer Science & Student Life Center at Scared Heart Schools in Atherton, Calif., and a single-family home called Special No. 9 House that was designed for the Make It Right Foundation all received LEED-Platinum ratings from the U.S. Green Building Council.
They made this year's AIA Top 10 list along with an adaptive reuse project at a former industrial building in San Francisco, a water resources center in the heavily agricultural community of Watsonville, Calif., an elementary school in Manassas Park, Va., the Manitoba Hydro Place in Canada, a sustainable living center in New York and a mixed-use building in Oregon.
The naming of the Top Ten projects last week marked the 14th anniversary of the program.
Here is the full list:
- 355 11th Street, Aidlin Darling Design, San Francisco, Calif.
- Homer Science & Student Life Center, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Atherton, Calif.
- KAUST, HOK, Thuwal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Kroon Hall, Centerbrook Architects and Planners, Hopkins Architects, New Haven, Conn.
- Manassas Park Elementary School + Pre-K, VMDO Architects, P.C., Manassas Park, Va.
- Manitoba Hydro Place, Smith Carter Architects and Engineers, Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg Architects, Winnipeg, Canada.
- Omega Center for Sustainable Living, BNIM Architects, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
- Special No. 9 House, KieranTimberlake, New Orleans, La.
- Twelve West, ZGF Architects LLP, Portland, Ore.
- Watsonville Water Resource Center, WRNS Studio LLP, Watsonville, Calif.
Photo above by J. Picoulet, courtesy of the AIA.
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