Across the 4,751-square-mile region of Los Angeles County, the seaside city of Santa Monica has become the unrivaled testing ground for innovations in energy-conscious civic design in the service of community. It might just have at least one example for every building type imaginable. Frederick Fisher & Partners’s open-plan office addition to Santa Monica City Hall, for instance, was the first municipal structure to receive Living Building Challenge Certification. Field Operations’s adjacent Tongva Park, funded through California’s now-defunct tax increment financing (TIF) laws, is replete with drought-tolerant plants grown in local nurseries and watered by the runoff of a nearby recycling facility.
Brunson Terrace, a 48-unit
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