🌱 INTRODUCING: THE LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE Petal 1: PLACE This week, we’re taking you behind the walls — and under the prairie grass — to explore what makes the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library one of the most sustainable cultural institutions in the world. 🌼 We’re building to meet the Living Building Challenge — the most rigorous green building certification on the planet. It’s more than net-zero energy. It’s about creating a place that gives more than it takes. A building that lives

✨ BEAUTY · LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE PETAL 7 “It slows you down. It gets you to look around… and appreciate where you are.” The final Petal in the Living Building Challenge is perhaps the most essential — and the most human. Beauty isn’t ornamental. It’s intentional. It asks us to pause, feel, and connect. 📍Set on 93 acres of rolling Badlands, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library doesn’t dominate the landscape — it disappears into it. Designed by Snøhetta, the building curves like the hi

🪵 MATERIALS · LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE PETAL 5 “Sustainability in the 2020s is what conservation was in the 1920s.” To meet the Materials Petal of the Living Building Challenge, every nail, beam, wall, and finish at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library has been carefully, ethically chosen. We’re not just building green — we’re building clean, local, and lasting. 🧱 What you’ll find inside: – Mass timber and rammed earth walls, made with soil from the site – A green roof that insulates a