The Letterman Digital Arts Center, located in the Presidio, San Francisco, is the new combined home of Industrial Light and Magic, LucasArts, and Lucasfilm's marketing, online, and licensing units. This article is about the city in California. ... Industrial Light + Magic (ILM) is a motion picture special visual effects company, founded in July 1975 by George Lucas and owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. ... LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ... Lucasfilm Logo Lucasfilm Ltd. ...
The complex is constructed on the site of an old hospital of the same name on the grounds of the former U.S. Army base in the Presidio. Set to open in July 2005, the $350 million, 850,000 square-foot center will be home to 1500 employees. The grounds were designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who has also restored San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square. A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. ... A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ... Ongoing events • 2005 Kuomintang visits to Mainland • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Election of OAS Secretary General • Stanislav Gross scandal in Czech republic Upcoming events Deaths in May May 3: Jagjit Singh Aurora May 3: Don Canham May... Lawrence Halprin (1916 New York City - ) is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator. ...
When the LettermanHospital at the Presidio of San Francisco was demolished after standing vacant for more than 10 years, it didn't completely disappear.
Not only did that make construction of the LettermanDigitalArtsCenter more efficient -- concrete-framed buildings were erected in just 12 months -- it also kept hundreds of thousands of tons of debris out of Bay Area landfills.
Recycling the old construction materials was just one of the conservation efforts that will earn the LettermanDigitalArtsCenter a Gold Certified Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), signifying some of the highest standards of sustainable development.