The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) officially launched LEED v5 this week, the latest version of its flagship Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building program. LEED v5 builds on the program’s 25-year legacy and global impact, updating and strengthening the sustainability standard while providing user-friendly tools for building owners and teams to pursue certification through enhanced technology updates.
According to Peter Templeton, president and CEO of USGBC, “Since its public launch 25 years ago, LEED has profoundly impacted millions of people in cities and communities around the world. LEED v5 raises the bar, further defining and evolving best practices and giving stakeholders across the building industry clear pathways to address today’s challenges to our health, climate and communities.”
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Location: Atlanta, GA
Products: Alucobond (MCM)
General Contractor: Balfour Beatty
Architect: HKS Inc.
Located in Midtown, 14th and Spring is a 324,000-square-foot, people-centric workplace. The 12-story, Class A office tower prioritizes a welcoming experience and responds to the demands of today’s diverse workstyles by offering individual focus zones, collaboration hubs and restorative quiet spaces on light-infused floors. Amenities include a rooftop terrace and social room, café and coffee shop, lobby-level patio, fitness center and locker rooms. There is also a five-level, below-deck parking garage.
For this project, MillerClapperton fabricated and installed approximately 11,900 square feet of Alucobond Metal Composite Material (MCM) in Bone White and Champagne Metallic for the office tower, and 2,200 square feet of Alucobond MCM in Bone White for the Parking Garage.
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This article in ArchDaily looks at how architecture professions can transform the atmosphere of a structure. Architectural structures can be repurposed over time as new uses and needs energy between spaces and their users, and similar to how the structures of old buildings keep the memory of communities alive, introducing new life through greenhouses, housing, commerce, offices or cultural centers can bring about new atmospheres where light, ventilation, the integration of nature and other elements reshape interior experiences.
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Instagram recently updated its photo grid to one that is more vertically oriented than the square grid we were all used to. In recent years, everything from TikTok and Instagram Reels and Stories have conditioned us to expect everything in portrait mode, reinforcing vertical framing as the norm. This article in Architizer highlights how this shift is particularly interesting for architecture, as historically the discipline has relied on wide, horizontal compositions, but this new change means re-assessing how we see architecture so that it gets shared, engaged with and ultimately remembered.
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Recommendation: DESIGN:ED Podcast: Nico Kienzl
Hosted by: Aaron Prinz
In this episode of Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast, Nico Kienzl, founding director of Atelier Ten, discusses how his team consults with architects to implement environmental design and the metrics for success of a sustainable project. He also shares how the firm is leading the profession to accomplish “Absolute Zero Carbon” for the built environment.
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