Architects and engineers from HOK / Vanderweil showcased their creativity and sustainable design expertise with a winning net zero building retrofit design in Metropolis magazine’s Next Generation® Design Competition 2011. Young designers were challenged to develop net zero energy solutions for a 46-year-old federal office building in downtown Los Angeles. In alignment with President Barack Obama’s mandate that federal agencies lower their greenhouse gas emissions, the building’s owner, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), has a goal of reducing building emissions 30% by 2020. >>>

When autumn’s icy fingers wrap themselves around the dying rays of summer, our holiday dreams begin to turn from beach to ski-field. St Falls, the building created as a new gateway for Falls Creek, is literally a dream, its moth-like form representing the local Tawonga Aboriginal 'dream-time' mythology of the Bogong moth. >>>