First-of-a-kind research calculates that public benefits are comparable to construction cost of the building. A report released on September 4, 2014, Optimizing Urban Ecosystem Services: The Bullitt Center Case Study, found that just six of the building’s green features will produce up to $18.5 million in benefits to society over the life of the building….
Read MoreWhen the team set out to design and build the Bullitt Center, we had one goal in mind: push the limits of today’s technologies and knowledge to create the greenest office building in the world. By showing what’s possible today, we wanted to encourage other project teams to go even further. We set this goal…
Read MoreThe Bullitt Center team learned this week that John Stamets, architectural photographer and lecturer at the University of Washington, passed away. While we mourn his passing, we also wanted to celebrate John’s fantastic work documenting the construction of the Bullitt Center. Most visitors to the Bullitt Center start their tour in the Discovery Commons, facing…
Read MoreMaya Lin, Jason McLennan, and Jay Harman all presented visions of hope for the future at the Living Future 2014 unConference. Maya Lin’s presentation was spell-binding, in particular her descriptions of her Confluence Project: http://www.confluenceproject.org/project-sites/ Jay Harman described how nature offers us the solutions we desperately need in his presentation Biomimicry: How Nature is Inspiring…
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