Courtesy Preservation Resource Center

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans over 10 years ago, it displaced residents and decimated the building stock in dozens of neighborhoods. Many buildings were damaged beyond the point of rehabilitation. These buildings were typically demolished and their materials landfilled. Read more

EpiCenter is the Boston headquarters of Artists for Humanity (AFH), a non-profit that works to create self-sufficiency among at-risk urban teens through  training and employment in the arts. Read more

Cesar Rubio Photography, Copyright 2005

ScrapHouse was a temporary demonstration home which was built out of entirely scrap and reclaimed materials in front of San Francisco City Hall for World Environment Day 2005. Read more

Photo courtesy Busby Perkins+Will

The City of Vancouver runs its own advanced asphalt manufacturing plant that makes new asphalt as well as recycling old asphalt from the city’s roads. Read more

The 1999 relocation of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) office to the historic 1930′s Gus Solomon Courthouse building in downtown Portland called for an extensive renovation project.   Read more

Uptown Monterey is a multi-tenant urban shopping center that embraced the opportunity to reuse material from the 1950s era grocery store previously on site. Read more

The National Audubon Society is dedicated to conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Read more

The City of White Rock Operations Building replaced an outdated facility on the same site. The replacement of the old facility was treated as an opportunity to build as sustainably as possible, in reflecting the city’s policy of promoting green design strategies in all new construction. Read more

Photo: Miller Hull Partnership

The TAF Community Learning Space will serve as a technology drop-in center and headquarters for TAF (Technology Access Foundation), a non-profit which works to provide technology and life-skills training to minority and disadvantaged youth in Seattle. Read more

The Michelin-rated restaurant, Public, located in Manhattan, is housed in a space evocative of its name.  The main aesthetic goal for designers/owners Avro|KO was to create an egalitarian gathering space by celebrating the best of the public institutions that are part of the shared American experience – post offices, libraries, and schools. Read more

It is not often that a natural disaster advances the sustainability agenda of a project, particularly when that disaster occurs during construction.  However, this is exactly what happened when Hurricane Rita blew through Orange, Texas in September 2005. Read more

The Big Dig House is a single family residence outside Boston that looks very unlike its neighbors.  Its most striking element is a massive exposed steel structure that seems reminiscent of highway infrastructure.  Perhaps that is because it once did support an elevated highway. Read more