The CookplusFox team extensively researches the site,investigating its history and contemporary surroundings.Informed by this architectual and natural context, a design can emerge with a strong sense of place that reflects and even enhances the local environment. We believe that good design must reflect an integral environmental response.We must lead our industry away from practices that borrow against the furture, and learn to reconnect buildings with the systems that support life. As the environmental concerns of our day intensify, we assert that architectural excellence and the imperative of sustainability will unite to yield a new aesthetic.