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School Construction News
“San Francisco Private School is on Track for LEED Gold After Turning a 1970s Call Center into a 21st Century, Sustainable School Building”
January | February 2008
Home Miami
“A Family Affair: A Coral Gables Couple Finally Wakes Up in Their Dream House”
August 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
“A Little Lesson: Green dollhouses: Coyote Point Museum teaches kids about ecology -- on a smaller scale”
21 September 2006
ArchNewsNow
“Sustainable Urbanism Tops the Agenda as World Environment Day Comes to the U.S. June 1-5”
31 May 2005
Neighborhood Newswire
“Schoolyard Gardens: A Place to Grow”
15 April 2005
Small Firms Great Projects 2005
“Sustainable Design is Modern Design”
Article by Richard Parker, 450 architects
San Francisco Chronicle Prestige Living
“It’s Easy Being Green: Conscious Architecture for the New Millennium”
October 2004
SchoolFacilities.com
“San Francisco’s First Solar-Powered School Earns Accolades”
15 September 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
“Object Lesson: A new school building that teaches green ideas”
15 August 2004
SPUR newsletter
“Changing the Rules: Toward a streamlined solar power permitting process”
July 2004
Architectural Record
“In the U.S., architects are ramping up the design power of photovoltaics”
19 March 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
“Miniature dream homes on the block”
28 January 2004
Marin Independent Journal
“Small Scale, Big Ideas”
14 October 2003
Environmental Design + Construction
“AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects”
September | October 2003
San Francisco Business Times
“Technology allows new energy source to fall from sky”
Guest opinion column by Richard Parker and Raphael Sperry, 450 architects
21 August 2003
San Francisco Business Times
“City mulls pair of green building initiatives”
1 August 2003
Architectural Record
“California Dominates 2003 AIA Top 10 Green Projects”
May 2003
American Institute of Architects press release
“Earth Day 2003: Environmentally Responsible Architecture and Design”
22 April 2003
The Richmond Review
“Lots of energy at ‘green’ Richmond pre-school”
October 2002
arcCA
“A Glorious Modesty: Argonne Child Development Center, 450 architects”
Winter 2002
New Village Journal
“Argonne Child Development Center”
Issue 3, 2002
Stone World
“Focus on Indian Stone: Sandstone uplifts California school”
August 2001
CASH Register
“Argonne Child Development Center: San Francisco’s First Solar Powered School”
January 2001
Sunset Magazine
“Working with architects and other design professionals”
June 2000
Golden Gate Xpress Online
“Breaking Ground for Ground-Breaking Green School”
Spring 2000
The Independent
“Richmond school looks to the sun”
30 June 1998
San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine
“Circular World”
20 March 1994