Ms. Stone opened her own firm, Tracy A. Stone Architect, in 1991. The firm was certified by the City of Los Angeles as a Women Business Enterprise in 1994. The office has completed a variety of projects, including an animal shelter, a ‘green’ teahouse, and a children’s dance studio. Passive solar features are regularly incorporated into appropriate design solutions, with more integrated technologies employed where possible. Recent projects have incorporated such features as retention basins, green roofs, thermal chimneys, building integrated photo-voltaics, permeable paving, etc. Commercial work has included a new passive-solar 2700 square foot speculative office building, the North Central Animal Services Center (LEED Gold certification) for the City of Los Angeles, tenant improvements for the UCLA Medical Plaza, and the master plan for a 19 acre site in the middle of the town of Santa Maria, CA. This last project seeks to minimize storm-water run-off by incorporating green roofs, permeable paving and graywater cisterns. Along with the more traditional architecture services, the firm regularly participates in community events and competitions. The firm, located in an existing warehouse in Elysian Valley, created and organizes the annual “Frogtown Artwalk”. The firm’s work has been featured in a variety of publications, including LA Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, and the LA Times. The North Central Animal Services Center was included in a 2004 exhibition at the Los Angeles A + D Museum entitled “Public Works”, and recently received a design award from the Pasadena/Foothill Chapter of the AIA, the ‘Best Green Building of 2007’ award from California Construction Magazine, and an ‘Exceptional Achievement Award’ from the Southern California Development Forum.Specialties: Sustainable Design, LEED AP, Historic Preservation, Animal Shelter/Kennel Design, Custom Residential Design, Small Commercial