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Hotel Valley Ho

Hotel Valley Ho is an area landmark and a legendary hip hotel in downtown Scottsdale celebrating its 52nd year in business. Reopened in December 2005, following an $80 million rehabilitation, this 193 room urban resort + spa blends the past with the present: classic mid-century modern architecture with modern conveniences like complimentary wireless Internet access throughout, flat screen televisions, a state-of-the-art exercise facility, the VH Spa for Vitality + Health, Café ZuZu, the ...

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MCC Physical Science Building -- SmithGroup

Mesa Community Colleges Physical Science Building will be the first LEED certified building on the campus as well as the first major LEED project to be completed throughout the Maricopa County Community College District. Photovoltaic panels donated by SRP, in part, power a 53-seat planetarium and simultaneously provide shade for the Astronomy Plaza below, an outdoor court and study space for students.

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Papago Gateway Center -- SmithGroup

Papago Gateway Center establishes a new era of flexible, responsible, sustainable development in Tempe, Arizona. The office/research lab mixed-used facility boasts 2000 operable, sun-tracking aluminum louvers that open and close as throughout the day as the sun moves across the southern sky.

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MCC Saguaro Building at Red Mountain Campus -- SmithGroup

The Saguaro Building at Mesa Community College's Red Mountain campus celebrates its setting and curriculum with unique architectural and sustainable strategies. The project includes instructional life science laboratories and classrooms as well as a multi-purpose performing arts classroom and theater. A 'snake wrangling area,' terrariums filled with Sonoran mammals and reptiles, and bat roosts designed into the side of the building are some unique features of this project. ... MCC Saguaro ...

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ASU Polytechnic Academic Campus, Mesa AZ

Engineering News-Record (ENR) named ASU Polytechnic Academic Complex The Best Green Building in the US in 2008! Visiting this multi-award winning, fast-track, brownfield, 245000-sq.-ft. three building complex truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Built on a former US Air Force Base, the project is LEED-NC Registered and has been submitted to the USGBC for the final Certification. Given the submission, the project may reach LEED-NC Gold, and will most certainly reach LEED-NC Silver ...

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CBRE Collier Center & CBRE Phoenix Plaza

CBRE's Planet Building approach to property management encourages us to view our buildings as "planets" where occupants are on a journey toward a greener tomorrow. As sustainable behaviors in the building evolve and become adopted as the norm, the buildings influence expands to Main Street, connecting with, and influencing, an increasing number of systems within the biosphere of society itself. In downtown and mid-town Phoenix, Arizona, two stellar examples of change agency are Collier ...

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