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Although 450 Architects specializes in contemporary architecture, featuring passive private residences—read: built to energy efficient standards—sustainable buildings, and public space developments with ecological hyper-awareness, there is nothing passive about their portfolio. Co-founded by the late David Bushnell (who died in 2018) and Richard Parker, the firm continues to pursue the same core beliefs in 2025 with which it began.

Those beliefs and the company’s proce

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