October 3, 2008
  Lucasfilm’s Letterman Digital Arts Center Achieves LEED Gold
Lucasfilm Limited’s Letterman Digital Arts Center at San Francisco’s historic Presidio by HKS has achieved LEED® Gold Certification. The 850,000-square-foot, 23-acre Letterman Digital Arts Center is home to several of the company’s film, education, and gaming divisions and is an adaptive reuse of a former military hospital. The center’s four buildings were designed by Gensler, with Dallas-based HKS Architects as executive architect. The buildings’ sustainable design also meets the requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act. Construction was complete in 2006.

MEMBER TO MEMBER
Amidst a Swirl of Extremes, Weiss/Manfredi’s Architecture Emerges to Accomplish the Impossible
Their work takes place somewhere between public and private, in the middle of the natural and artificial
Marion Weiss, AIA, and Michael Manfredi, FAIA, came to the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on September 15 as part of its Spotlight and Design lecture series to discuss their still-young firm’s projects, epically their Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. They also sat down with AIArchitect Associate Editor Zach Mortice.

Special Children’s Center Offers Respite, Support
DMR Architects joined in a community effort to design a state-of-the-art educational facility for people ages 3 to 21 who have cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism, and other special needs. The firm is donating their services in what DMR calls a “barn-raising effort.”

 

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