Weber Thompson team wins design competition
Eco-Laboratory – a Weber Thompson-designed high-rise project that blends housing, urban gardens and a sustainability training center – won the 2008 Natural Talent Design Competition. The Cascadia Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council hosted the competition. Students and professionals working in the design field for less than five years were invited to submit concepts for “living buildings.” Brian Geller, Myer Harrell, Chris Dukehart and Dan Albert designed Eco-Laboratory to have cutting-edge sustainable features. In addition, the project addresses community needs by combining market-rate units with transitional housing. Contest judge Thor Peterson of Cascadia praised Eco-Laboratory as “…honest, upfront and pragmatic about the concept of having market-rate housing that would actually subsidize some of the other more socially oriented aspects of the project.” As the Cascadia winner, Eco-Laboratory will be entered into the competition at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Boston in November. For more information on Eco-Laboratory, click here.