技术主任Ben Trendell Core和Shell Team Anastasia Huggins，David Hall，Gunwook nam，Alison Wilkinson，Daniel Nauman，Jorge Barrero，Ethel Macleod，Eugene Lee，Joe Chisholm，Brent Van Gunten，Len Sciarra，Philip Kaefer，Joel McCullough，Rich Peake，Mariana Vaida，Jessica尹，Yooju No Interiors设计总监Ed Wood Project Manager YolMazzoni项目经理Greg LaForest，Duenanda，Troy Grichuk，Ian Doherty，Anna Goszczynska，马库斯·汉布林，Stefan ie Shunk，Jennifer Boyd，Stacy Poppel，Kirstin Farchaus Structure/MEP/FP Buro Happold Civil Civil

Technical Director Ben Trendell Core and Shell team Anastasia Huggins, David Hall, Gunwook Nam, Alison Wilkinson, Daniel Nauman, Jorge Barrero, Ethel Macleod, Eugene Lee, Joe Chisholm, Brent Van Gunten, Len Sciarra, Philip Kaefer, Joel McCullough, Rich Peake, Mariana Vaida, Jessica Yin, Yooju No Interiors Design Director Ed Wood Project Manager Yolanda Mazzoni Contributors Greg LaForest, Laura Duenas, Troy Grichuk, Ian Doherty, Anna Goszczynska, Marcus Hamblin, Stefanie Shunk, Jennifer Boyd, Stacy Poppel, Kirstin Farchaus Structural / MEP/FP Buro Happold Civil Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. Façade Heintges Landscape LaQuatra Bonci Associates Façade Maintenance Lerch Bates Lighting Studio I (interior); Fisher Marantz Stone (exterior) Wind Alan G. Davenport Wind Engineering Group Vertical Transportation Edgett Williams Consulting Group Acoustical Threshold Code Jensen Hughes Information Technology CS Technology Security DVS Security Consulting & Engineering Sustainability Paladino Traffic Trans Associates Archeology Christine Davis Consultants Food Service Hammer Design Associates Branding/Graphics Gensler Audio Visual TAD Art Goodall Gallery BIM manager Wai-Ming Chu Glass Provider PPG glass Client The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Rendering Space Matrix; Tangram 3DS Commissioning Altura Associates; CJL Engineering ESI Lobby Beacon General contractor PJ Dick Manufacturers Loading... More Specs Less Specs

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詹斯勒-周康妮

架构师提供的文本描述。2011年，当PNC公司房地产总监加里·索尔森(Gary Saulson)来到gensler位于芝加哥的办公室，参加PNC广场项目的启动仪式时，他以一个大胆的目标挑战了团队：设计世界上最绿色的摩天大楼。几个月前，设计团队曾前往欧洲和加拿大学习一流的高性能建筑.亲眼目睹了人们对建筑环境质量的关注，以及建筑技术如双层外墙和被动辐射系统的普及，使得我们决心重新考虑如何在国内设计绿色办公大楼。

Text description provided by the architects. When Gary Saulson, PNC’s Director of Corporate Real Estate, came to Gensler’s Chicago office in 2011 for The Tower at PNC Plaza project kick-off, he challenged the team with an audacious goal: design the greenest skyrise in the world. Months earlier, the design team had traveled to Europe and Canada to study best-in-class high-performance buildings. Seeing first-hand the focus on the quality of the built environment with respect to performance, and the ubiquity of building technologies such as double-skin façades and passive radiant systems emboldened our resolve to rethink how green office buildings could be designed back at home.

首先，我们意识到我们需要定义什么是最绿色的天空上升。在当时，“绿色”一词几乎是唯一侧重于LEED标准和节能。这意味着建筑分为两大类：非常小的建筑，它们的能源消耗也同样小，或者更传统的建筑，这些建筑规模很大，但有大量的螺栓技术来减少碳排放。这两者都不符合我们对PNC广场大厦可能或应该是什么的愿景。

First and foremost, we realized we needed to define what greenest skyrise meant. At the time, the term “green” was almost uniquely focused on LEED standards and energy conservation. This meant that buildings fell into two categories: buildings that were very small and kept their energy footprint similarly small, or more traditional buildings that were large but had a lot of bolt-on technologies to reduce carbon emissions. Neither fit our vision of what The Tower at PNC Plaza could or should be.

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詹斯勒-周康妮

相反，我们为该项目构建了一个愿景，全面解决用户体验、健康和健康、节能、工作场所创新和负责任的社区管理等问题。最近推出的特斯拉汽车(Tesla Car)将驾驶经验和环保性能结合起来，重新定义了自己的行业(一辆车在4秒内可以从零降至60英里，在一辆看起来也很棒的汽车上有零碳足迹)。受此启发，我们的团队试图设计一些能体现当代建筑最好的东西，促进员工的转型体验。为节约能源和用水设定新的基准。

Instead, we crafted a vision for the project that holistically addressed user experience, health and wellness, energy savings, workplace innovation, and responsible community stewardship. Inspired by the newly introduced Tesla car, which had redefined its industry by uniting driver experience and environmentally friendly performance (one could go from zero to sixty in under four seconds and have a zero carbon footprint in a car that also looked great), our team sought to design something that would exemplify the best of contemporary architecture, facilitate a transformational employee experience, and set new benchmarks for saving energy and water.

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詹斯勒-克里斯·伦纳德

为此，我们将用户体验放在设计过程的最前沿。我们最理想的工作场所是一个阳光明媚的下午，一名员工在公园长凳上工作，通过平板电脑上网，享受阳光和充足的新鲜空气。大多数建筑设计都寻求创造优化的室内环境，只关注尽可能多的日光导入。我们想更进一步，开发一种被动的自然通风策略，为建筑带来新鲜空气，让工人们有一种真正的户外感觉和与大自然的联系。

To do this we put the user experience at the forefront of the design process. Our snapshot of the ideal workplace was that of an employee working on a park bench on a sunny afternoon, connected online via a tablet, enjoying the sunlight and abundance of fresh air. Most building designs seek to create optimized interior environments by solely focusing on importing as much daylight as possible. We wanted to go one step further by developing a passive natural ventilation strategy that would bring fresh air into the building, giving workers a true feeling of being outdoors and connected to nature.

所以我们开始设计一座能够呼吸的建筑。

So we set out to design a building that could breathe.

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詹斯勒-周康妮

Architects Gensler

Location 300 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA

Category Office Buildings

Architect in Charge Doug Gensler

Architectural Design Director Hao Ko

Project Director Lisa Adkins

Area 800000.0 ft2

Project Year 2015

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