The Mälama Learning Center, an education and resource center on Kapolei High School campus, designed by Honolulu-based firm Eight Inc., is shortlisted for an award at the upcoming World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.
The Center has been chosen in the “Future Education” category for its design and consideration of the environment.
Tim Kobe and Mark Little, founding principal and principal, respectively, will present the project to an international panel of judges at the festival, Nov. 4 - 6.
"The Mälama Learning Center sets a new paradigm for cultural and environmental sustainability on an international level,” Little said in a news release issued by Eight Inc.
The festival, which serves as the world's biggest architectural summit, will focus on architecture in the new world economy. There are 272 shortlisted entrants from over 60 countries in 40 different categories.
Eight Inc. is one of 17 American firms shortlisted — the only American firm in the Future Education category and the only Hawaiçi-based firm and project overall.
The Mälama Learning Center is a LEED-registered project that aims to serve as a model for communities worldwide to engage in providing healthy and sustainable learning environments that foster a lifelong ethic of guardianship of community.
For more information about the project, visit www.malamalearningcenter.org/index.asp. Details about the festival are available at www.worldarchitecturefestival.com.