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09/03/2012

Won Buddhist Retreat featured on designalmic.com, Victoria Meyers architect

Won Buddhist Retreat is featured at the address below:

http://designalmic.com/won-dharma-center-by-hanrahan-meyers-architects-llp/ 

Please visit the link, to see a great spread on the project!

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Won Buddhist Retreat is a 550-acre campus dedicated to teaching the principles of Won Buddhist meditation, in Clavarack, NY, with a Zero Carbon Footprint.  The project, designed by Victoria Meyers architect with hMa, features five sustainably designed wood buildings.  All buildings are built using sustainably harvested wood (FSC wood), and the site is a mitigated Brownfield site with zero carbon footprint. 

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Victoria Meyers architect supports efforts to build sustainable architecture, and her firm, hMa, believes in using Brownfield sites or repurposing exisiting buildings, where possible.  To see more about hMa, visit the firm's website:  www.hanrahanMeyers.com. 

 

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