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CoStar Update - Green Building Review
The Green Building Review: Re-Skinning and ... Matlock?
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By Andrew C. Burr
June 2, 2009
Hines earned LEED certification for the 48-story tower at 101 California Street, in San Francisco.
The environmental group Zerofootprint on Tuesday launched its Building Re-Skinning Competition in New York, an international contest that will publicize energy efficiency measures that can be reproduced in cities worldwide. The competition is open to architects with pre-funded designs for existing assets that will be monitored over a period of three years after implementation. The winner is the building that reduces the most energy per square foot as compared to a pre-retrofit energy audit.
The competition had a separate launch in Toronto last month and several retrofit designs for Canadian buildings have already been submitted. A third launch event is scheduled in London.
Entries are due on Sept. 1 and will be judged on aesthetics, energy efficiency, smart technology and return on investment. The jury includes the renowned architect William McDonough, Architecture 2030 founder Edward Mazria, and Andrew Bowerbank, executive director of the World Green Building Council.
Hines achieved LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) certification for two trophy towers in San Francisco. The 48-story 101 California St. building and the 20-story Hawthorne Plaza tower, which achieved Gold certification, combine to total more than 1.5 million square feet. Both properties are owned and managed by Hines and have the government’s Energy Star label for energy efficiency. Hawthorne Plaza houses a regional headquarters for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Also in San Francisco, the law firm O’Melveny & Myers earned Gold LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) certification for its new office at 2 Embarcadero Center. The firm moved to 4 million-square-foot Embarcadero Center last September. The architecture group Gensler designed the office, which is about 25,700 square feet, according to CoStar Group information.
The Hurt Building, the fictional home office of the TV attorney Matlock, is the first commercial tower in Atlanta to earn Gold LEED-EB certification. Harbor Group International purchased the 18-story, 436,000-square-foot tower in 2006. It was constructed the year the Titanic sunk and is one of the city’s oldest high-rises.
The swanky, redeveloped Hotel Wacker in Chicago (now known as Hotel Felix) is seeking LEED Silver certification. Constructed in 1926, the 12-story property on W. Huron St. was purchased in 2007 by Oxford Capital Group. Temperature controls in rooms automatically switch on and off when guests are detected by motion sensors. Cubellis and Gettys redesigned the hotel.
In New York, The Visionaire, a 35-story residential condo tower in Battery Park City earned the coveted LEED Platinum certification, while the early childhood Mandell School is seeking LEED for its new space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The 247-unit, crescent-shaped Visionaire opened last fall and is more than 40 percent more energy efficient than comparable properties, according to The Albanese Organization, the building owner. Pelli Clarke Pelli designed the tower, the only LEED Platinum condominium on the east coast.
Mandell School is moving to the Columbus Square mixed-use complex between 97th and 100th streets, where it will more than double its number of students. JRS Architect and Aragon Construction are building-out the 50,000-square-foot space with energy-efficient lighting, recycled rubber flooring and a vegetated “living” wall. Chetrit Group is developing Columbus Square.
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