YARMOUTH PORT, MA-- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment selected IFAW's (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) headquarters building as one of the 2009 top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design.
The award will be given to IFAW and Boston-based designLAB architects at the AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco later this month.
The 2009 COTE Top Ten Green Projects program celebrates projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology. They make a positive contribution to their communities, improve comfort for building occupants and reduce environmental impacts through strategies such as reuse of existing structures, connection to transit systems, low-impact and regenerative site development, energy and water conservation, use of sustainable or renewable construction materials and design that improves indoor air quality.
Other recipients include the Charles Hostler Student Center in Beirut, Lebanon; the Chartwell School in Seaside, CA; Gish Apartments in San Jose, CA; Great River Energy Corporate Headquarters in Maple Grove, MN; Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, IL; Portola Valley Town Center, in Portola Valley, CA; Shangri LA Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange, TX; Synergy at Dockside Green in Victoria, BC; and The Terry Thomas, Seattle, WA.
designLAB architects and IFAW's headquarters received additional awards including the AIA award for interior architecture and three additional awards from the Boston Society of Architects including an honor award for design, an interior architecture award and a sustainability award.
IFAW's LEED Gold-certified headquarters encompasses 54,000 sf of space in three connected buildings. The project accomplishes its goals through a pragmatic low-cost, low-tech approach to sustainability based on fundamentals and common sense. The site landscape draws from the 18th-century Bartlett farm in nearby Barnstable as a model of landscape preservation. The resulting layout is in the tradition of rural Cape Cod development; a half-acre courtyard of native grasses, open to the south, centers the building complex, whose flexible architecture is located at the north, east and west edges of the site.
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