Better Living Through Algae! Metropolis Announces Winner of Next Generation Design Competition

The mission, if you chose to accept it: propose ideas for retrofitting a circa-1965 Los Angeles federal building to attain net zero energy status. Hundreds of young designers devised design fixes to transform the eight-story office building—in a memorable, beautiful, and original way—for the eighth annual Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, held in partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration. And the winner is…a 15-member team of HOK / Vanderweil architects and engineers that impressed judges including Michelle