May 9, 2013: Building Receives Award for Quantifiable Green Results
WASHINGTON — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) has selected 355 11th Street: The Matarozzi/Pelsinger Multi-Use Building in San Francisco as the inaugural recipient of the Top Ten Plus award. The Top Ten Plus award recognizes one past AIA/COTE Top Ten Projects Award recipient which has quantifiable metrics that demonstrate the true impact the sustainable design has achieved.
The building was originally recognized as a 2010 AIA/COTE Top Ten Project Award recipient. The project is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-NC Gold adaptive reuse of a historic and previously derelict turn-of-the-century industrial building which includes a LEED-CI Platinum restaurant on the ground floor. The building’s former parking lot has now been transformed into an outdoor dining courtyard and organic garden where herbs are grown for use in the restaurant. Since the restaurant has opened below, the heat generated from the kitchen, on the ground floor, has resulted in no additional heat being needed in the office space for all but a handful of cold days in the year.