August 8, 2024

Charlotte of the Upper West Side wins a Good Green Design Award

Charlotte of the Upper West Side, our passive house certified multi-family condo building has won a 2024 Green GOOD DESIGN® Award from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

From the official press release:

“Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, product, packaging, and graphic designs from over 32 nations were awarded with Green GOOD DESIGN 2024, representing the world’s most important manufacturers and design firms and leading FORTUNE 500 corporations that are forwarding a new emphasis on a more sustainable design and environment worldwide.This is the 16th year our institutions have developed this very specialized edition of the original GOOD DESIGN program, which was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames.
Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and to develop a public awareness program to the general public about which global companies are doing the best job ecological and sustainable design for our world environments. For 2024, Green GOOD DESIGN, we received hundreds of submissions from around the world. Members of The European Centre’s International Advisory Committee—worldwide leaders in the design industry—served as the jury and selected over 170 new products, programs, people, environmental planning, and architecture as outstanding examples of Green Design.”

Read more about our project and the other winners on their website:

https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/green-architecture-2024/2024/07/05/charlotte-of-the-upper-west-side-2017-2021/