Kresge Foundation Headquarters, Troy, Michigan

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	Kresge Foundation Headquarters
Designer	Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Location	Troy, Michigan, USA
Date
Builder	JM Olson Corporation
Street Address
Notes	with Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Building Details
Client	The Kresge Foundation
Awards	Honor Award, Chicago AIA Sustainable Design Award 2007 Institutional
Other Details	Consultants Robert Darvas Associates; OVE Arup & Partners; Progressive AE; Conservation Design Forum

"Although it uses 38 strategies to collect 52 LEED points, 'they still made a great design,' jurors said. 'It's a beautiful building.' Embedded into the landscape, the building has retaining walls of gabion baskets filled with assorted old paving and foundation rubble from the site, but masquerading as crushed Michigan blue granite. And the 400 geothermal wells are concealed beneath the parking lot. Together, these and other details dramatically reduce the building's environmental impact, but at no cost to its visual impact." – http://aiachicago.org/special_features/2007DEA/awards.asp?subID=856

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http://aiachicago.org/special_features/2007DEA/awards.asp?subID=856