The Los Alamos County Nature Center, a collaboration between Los Alamos County and the local Pajarito Environmental Education Center, is a back-to-basics yet pioneering project in the heart of the New Mexico wilderness and the winner of ENR Southwest’s Project of the Year award.
To meet a limited budget, the team innovated a hybrid steel and wood structure while returning to traditional methods in securing the building to a cliff wall and locating it amid the surrounding forest.