Miller Hull

Energy’s Forgotten Silver Bullet

Source: Architecture and the City

2-16-2026 | News

Architects and engineers choose efficiency tactics to suit America’s widely varying climate, hydrology, and geography. This is a feature, not a bug. Thus, the architecture firm Miller Hull and the mechanical and electrical engineer PAE relied almost entirely on demand reduction in the design of the Bullitt Center. It’s a 2013 office building that has been influential in demonstrating how to achieve net-zero energy since its solar array could harvest few kilowatts from Seattle’s eternal cloud cover. Among many innovative tactics, oversized triple-glazed windows draw daylight in, while keeping warmth in and undesired heat out.

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