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Bullitt Center

Bullitt Center. Image: Helen Pineo, 2019

The Bullitt Center office building in Seattle, USA pioneered deep green design methods that pushed the boundaries of sustainable architecture. Owned and operated by the Bullitt Foundation, the building is described by Robert Peña and colleagues as catalysing ‘a shift in outlook from the notion of buildings as machines for living to that of buildings as living systems’ (1). Collaborating with the city and a local university, the Bullitt Center project led to a new Living Building Pilot Programme in Seattle and detailed post-occupancy evaluation data to continually improve the functioning of the building for people and the planet.

This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies and this case is adapted from the full version in Healthy Urbanism.(2)

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Nightingale Housing

Nightingale Anstey. Image: Kate Longley, Nightingale Housing

Nightingale 1 is a ‘social experiment’. The apartment building in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne is the first completed example of the replicable, triple bottom line housing typology of Nightingale Housing. The building proved the concept for the Nightingale model, which aims to develop housing projects that are financially, socially and environmentally sustainable, disrupting the status quo of Australian residential development.(1)

The core mission of Nightingale Housing social enterprise is to create a housing system that supports human wellbeing, as well as economic, social and ecological sustainability. These aspirations are materialised in the housing typology and development model exemplified in the Nightingale 1 building, now being replicated on other projects in Melbourne and elsewhere in Australia. This case study describes details about Nightingale 1 and the wider model that is being used on other Nightingale Housing projects.

This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies and this case is adapted from the full version in Healthy Urbanism.(2)

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Stone34

Outdoor eating at Brooks Sports Headquarters Building (Stone34). Image credit: LMN Architects

Stone34 is a five-storey, mixed-use commercial building in Seattle, USA on Stone Way between 34th and 35th streets in the Fremont neighbourhood. The building was designed according to the City of Seattle’s Deep Green Program (now Living Building Pilot Program) which is aligned with the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). Stone34 is certified LEED Platinum. The building uses around 75 percent less energy and water than similar projects. It was envisaged to act as an urban “trailhead” to Seattle’s popular Burke-Gilman, a 43 km cycling and walking trail. The project’s goals to support both physical activity and sustainability across the building and site were further strengthened when the main tenant, Brooks Sports, a company that makes running shoes and attire, was secured.

This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies and this case study was written by Elizabeth Cooper.

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