February 15, 2008
  Arboretum Visitor Center Stands Tall—Against the Yardstick of a Tree
Now LEED Platinum certified, the Bernheim Arboretum Visitor Center integrates the natural and the artificial
The Bernheim Arboretum Visitor Center in Clermont, Ky., is a highly sustainable facility that self-consciously and transparently models its green features after the ecological balance a tree maintains with its environment, such as producing oxygen, deriving its energy from sunlight, and itself becoming a habitat for nature. The William McDonough + Partners-designed building is made of recycled wood constructed into a series of trellises and pergolas that provides a framework to bring people into closer contact with nature.

Visitor Center Mirrors Magnificence of Grand Tetons
The new 19,500-square-foot Grand Teton Discovery and Visitor Center opened last fall in Moose, Wyo., within the Grand Teton National Park in the Teton mountain range. Designed by the Seattle office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the angular Grand Teton Discovery and Visitor Center features 4,800 square feet of interactive exhibits that focus on the themes of place, people, preservation, and mountaineering. A main feature of the center combines three video “rivers” of continuous footage of Teton images projected on screens in glass walkways. Three million visitors are expected annually at the Grand Teton Discovery and Visitor Center.

St. Louis’ Historic Lemp Brewery Converts to Upscale, Mixed-Use Development
Wichita-based WDM Architects and St. Louis-based Ebersoldt + Underwood Architecture (E+U) have designed plans for Garrison Development to adaptively reuse the historic Lemp Brewery complex in St. Louis. Plans call for redeveloping the 14-acre site into more than 400 residential apartments and approximately 75,000 square feet of commercial and retail space. At $150 million, the project is one of the largest historic redevelopment projects in St. Louis. Construction is expected to begin in May 2008 and be completed in three phases over the next four years.

 

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