The World’s First LEED Platinum Museum

The Water + Life Museums complex in Hemet, California, has just become the first museum to break the LEED Platinum barrier. The building constructed by LA based Michael Lehrer Architects is worth $40 million and is 72,000 square feet big. Situated in the desert the building brought some challenges going from freezing in the winter to more than 100 degrees in the summer but the architects were able to keep a light footprint.