When the bullitt foundation determined to create the greenest commercial building in the world, we embarked on a quest that was mind-numbingly complex but enormously rewarding. I'd assumed that the toughest challenge would be to build a zero net energy six-story building in cloud-covered Seattle. That was difficult, but far from the hardest of the goals we set out to meet. Our goal for the Bullitt Center was ridiculously ambitious. In a flight of rhetoric, I told the architects that I wanted them to do for buildings what the 707 did for commercial aircraft, what the first Macintosh did for personal computers, what the Prius did for automobiles. I wanted the Bullitt Center to redefine the whole category.
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