“The Bullitt Center was the type of design challenge architects dream about.” Brian Court, The Miller Hull Partnership Mary Adam Thomas’ newly released book, THE GREENEST BUILDING: How the Bullitt Center Changes the Urban Landscape, documents the historic creation of the greenest Class-A commercial office building in the world. The storyline traces the Bullitt Foundation’s…
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 1, 2015 Today the Bullitt Center proved its status as the greenest commercial building in the world by becoming the first office building to earn Living Building certification, the most challenging benchmark of sustainability in the built environment. To earn the certification, the Bullitt Center demonstrated that it produces more…
Read MoreAs part of the Living Building Challenge, the Bullitt Center team worked to screen out endocrine-disrupting chemicals from products used in the project. In this post, Kris Weber offers some background on EDCs. – Editor Over the past 50 years, chemicals—both synthetic and natural—have become an intractable element of our society. Indeed, advances in chemical…
Read MoreWhile the design team developed many, many documents to support every detail of Bullitt Center design, attached below is a document with both plan views and elevations to help design teams dig into the project. Bullitt Center Drawings (PDF, 934 KB)
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