Louisiana Cancer Research Center Rises Above Post-Katrina New Orleans

RTKL Creates Sustainable Healthcare Facility Amid Nature Preserve
Challenge to protect Scrub Jay creates unique opportunity
During conceptual design, the owner and design team believed that creating a healing garden for the new Parrish Health Center didn’t go far enough. Instead, they created a “healing environment” by establishing a nature preserve on the site of the new Titusville, Fla., health-care facility.

Chillin’ Out in the Empire State Building
BBG-BBGM the first to design a green office in the iconic skyscraper
New York City-based Brennan Beer Gorman Architects/Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors (BBG-BBGM) has recently moved into their new 32,000-square-foot, 25th-floor office space in New York’s iconic Empire State Building, which they recently renovated into a sustainable office habitat. One key feature of the new space is a custom-made chiller installed on the 25th-floor roof setback that provides the firm with its own independent, energy-saving HVAC system. BBG-BBGM is targeting LEED® Silver in the Commercial Interiors category for its design. If certified, the firm would become the first tenant to achieve this rating at the 102-story Empire State Building.