Montreal’s First Net-Zero Building
Canada
The Pavillon d’accueil du Parcours Gouin is a reception pavilion located in Basile-Routhier Park in Montréal, Canada, at the edge of the Prairies River separating the Island of Montréal from Laval. City officials wanted to achieve a net-zero consumption building – which, at the time, would have been a first for the city – that could also serve as an educational focal point around sustainable development.
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Wuehrer House, East Hampton
USA
A growing family wanted to create a nature-infused vacation retreat on a large wooded property in the Hamptons, with a goal of seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living in an expansive setting with ample privacy and tranquility. To this end, architect Jerome Engelking designed a glass house with an all-timber structure to eliminate walls and visual delineations, and keep the building’s aesthetics warm and natural.
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F1 Montreal Grand Prix Paddock
Canada
The Canadian Grand Prix has been held in Montreal every year (except 2020) since 1961, and since 1978 has been run at Parc Jean Drapeau’s Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. The paddocks building, however, which houses team garages, spectator loges and terraces, media and administrative rooms, and a control tower, had required major upgrades for years. Aside from fitting only 1,800 spectators, several other missing elements meant it didn’t meet official F1 World Championship standards.
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A Wildlife Sanctuary: Parc de la Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
Canada
The exploration centre at Laval’s Parc de la Rivière des Mille-Iles, a spectacular urban wildlife reserve, required an aesthetic solution that could fill the building with natural light while also providing passive house certification-level thermal insulation, superior wind resistance, and greater air tightness.
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Net-Zero Library Building for the City of Varennes
Canada
The City of Varennes wanted its new library to be the first institutional net-zero building in Quebec by featuring passive design, solar energy, natural daylight, and other elements of sustainable design. Along with being good for the planet and aesthetically pleasing, this would allow the city to save considerable operating costs throughout the building’s lifespan.
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Woolwich Central School
USA
Woolwich Central School’s $16.2 million, 66,000-square-foot addition and renovation project had several crucial requirements, but none more important than sustainable design, ample natural daylight in classrooms, and precision control of solar heat and glare.
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Mount Sinai West Hospital – NICU
USA
Mount Sinai West is a full-service medical center with a 24/7 emergency department, proudly serving patients from Midtown and the […]
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Medstar Franklin Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
USA
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center is a not-for-pro_x001F_t 378-bed community teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, that has operated for 25-plus years. In keeping with its history of excellence, MedStar Franklin set out to create a new state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) that would further enhance its infant and family care with a focus on privacy and tranquility.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital
USA
The Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is housed in a 386,000 square foot glass building featuring 673 beds and integrated inpatient and outpatient services. Unicel Architectural, which has a strong track record working with behavioral and mental health centers, was asked to deliver an integrated louvers product to provide safety, comfort and natural light along with vision, temperature, daylight, and sound control.
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Guggenheim Pavilion, Mt. Sinai Medical Center (NYC)
USA
Founded in 1852, the Mount Sinai Hospital is a 1,171-bed, tertiary-care teaching facility acclaimed internationally for excellence in clinical care. Its Guggenheim Pavilion was designed by renowned architect I. M. Pei and features 625 beds, along with special rooms for transplants and operating rooms for orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery.
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