November 18, 2009
Woodrow Wilson High School’s first phase won an International Design Award in architecture, taking third place in the institutional design category.
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Studio SC, a Seattle-based graphic design firm, recently completed an identity, wayfinding and educational graphic program for Washington State University’s Olympia Avenue student housing project. This is the first new student housing on the Pullman campus since 1972.
Studio SC created a graphic system that highlights the building’s sustainable efforts at the site of each LEED feature. Integrated throughout the space are a series of graphic icons and explanatory text that serve as visual cues for the sustainable components of the project.
The housing project includes geothermal heating and cooling, daylighting, and reclaimed building materials. By integrating educational graphics into the overall wayfinding system, residents are able to appreciate sustainability features in their own living space.
Olympia Avenue is targeting a LEED silver rating.
The center will include a strength and weight training area, a cardiovascular area, rock climbing wall, team practice area, two-court gymnasium with an elevated track, racquetball courts, new locker rooms, an equipment checkout area, classroom space and offices for campus recreation programs. The aquatic facility will be upgraded as well.
The building will use radiant floor heating/cooling coupled with natural ventilation. A heat recovery unit in the aquatic facility will use waste heat from the exhaust system to temper outside air for the pool area. Low-flow faucets, showerheads and dual-flush toilets are expected to reduce water consumption by up to 40 percent.
Other newly elected board members are Bob Crossno of Albuquerque and Brad Moyes of KPFF Consulting Engineers of Portland. For more information on NCSEA visit www.NCSEA.com or call (312) 649-4600.
The changes include new enforcement standards and revised minimum requirements for stormwater flow control and treatment. For additional information, contact Miles Mayhew at (206) 684-4656 or miles.mayhew@seattle.gov.
City planners are working to define place-making and urban design strategies that will help SLU become a livable neighborhood.
Marshall Foster and Jim Holmes from the Department of Planning and Development will give an overview of the process, and discuss the recommendations and challenges. The brown bag will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at GGLO's offices at 1301 First Ave., Suite 301. (Enter through the door located about a quarter of the way down the Harbor Steps).
The sign replacement is underway. New signs will appear on 12 boulevards including Lake Washington Boulevard, Magnolia Boulevard West, Queen Anne Boulevard and Volunteer Parkway.
In 1903, John Charles Olmsted Jr. of the Olmsted landscape architecture firm in Brookline, Mass., came to Seattle and made reccomendations for a Comprehensive System of Parks and Parkways. That plan, adopted by the Seattle City Council in 1903, forms the basis for today's 6,200-acre park and boulevard system. A prominent feature of the plan is the 20-mile long landscaped boulevard system that links most of the city's parks, playgrounds, playfields and greenbelts.
November 12, 2009
Marcie Lohr of Notkin Mechanical Engineers will make a presentation “Beyond the Basics of Marketing in the A/E/C Industry” at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 for the Society for Design Administration at the Rock Salt Restaurant at 1232 Westlake Ave. N.
Lohr is a certified professional services marketer with 20 years of experience. Dinner is $30 for members and $40 for nonmembers. Learn more and register at www.sda-seattle.com.
Moe, 72, who has been at the helm of the nation's leading preservation organization for 17 years, said he has told the board that he will stay until a successor has been named, probably next spring.
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen served as architect of record on the museum's award-winning Antoine Predock-designed 50,000 square foot facility, which opened in 2003.
The budget for the plaza project is $3 million. It will use landscape, art and signage to increase visibility and make the museum more approachable. This project comes out of the new Strategic Plan for Tacoma Art Museum.
Did your firm change its marketing strategies during the recent economic downturn? Were you asked to perform activities that made you feel uncomfortable because they were outside your personal code of ethics? Did they work?
The Society for Marketing Professional Services will hold a lunch program, “Marketing Ethics: You Be The Judge,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at the Washington Athletic Club at 1325 Sixth Ave.
Presenters Taree Bollinger and Pam Heeke will lead a workshop to explore the distinction between finessing the sale and telling out and out lies. Learn more and register at www.smpsseattle.org.
The meetings will provide presentations and individual consultation on best practices for managing landslide prone properties. To RSVP and for more information, contact Tyson Lin at DPD Community Relations at (206) 684-8443 or tyson.lin@seattle.gov.
Coffman Engineers provided mechanical design for the 244,000-square-foot building.
Coffman's mechanical team applied design concepts to increase chilled water system efficiency and raise fan system efficiency. Fan systems were designed with N+1 redundancy, increasing reliability and simplifying maintenance.
Heat recovered from computer and equipment rooms is used for domestic water and space heating.
November 4, 2009
The Lacey/Thurston County Regional Athletic Complex has been named project of the year by the International Northwest Park and Recreation Association. The $18.9 million center was completed in April on a 78-acre site formerly owned by the Ostrom Co. and used for mushroom farming.
The complex has six soccer fields, including one synthetic turf field with floodlighting, four softball fields and one baseball field with floodlighting, electronic scoreboards and spectator seating. There are two concession/restroom buildings, a tournament meeting building with restrooms, picnic shelters and parking for 500 vehicles.
There are also three children's play areas, pedestrian paths, a kite-flying hill, basketball courts, and an outdoor event and festival area.
The city of Lacey has another 20 acres that will be developed as a part of Phase III.
Contractor was Ceccanti, prime design consultant was Bruce Dees & Associates of Tacoma, building architect was Anderson Boone Architects, electrical engineer was Sparling and geotechnical consultant was Creative Engineering Options.
The 2009 Stanley D. Wilson Memorial Lecture is presented by Shannon & Wilson and the University of Washington's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Miller has served on the ACEC Board in numerous capacities including as a director, vice-president, and most recently as chair-elect. Joining Miller are new officers: Chris Robertson, Shannon & Wilson, chairman-elect; Carol Slaughterbeck, Herrera Environmental Consultants, vice chair; and Nancy Walker, MWH Americas, vice chair.
This year's directors are: Bob Axley, Wood Harbinger; John Franklin, CH2M Hill; Steve Johnston, Landau Associates; Mark Napier, J-U-B Engineers; Arnie Rusten, BergerABAM; and Kurt Gahnberg, TranspoGroup.
ACEC Washington president and CEO is Bill Garrity.
The foundation says the tour will focus on the “profound effect that money, green construction, adaptive re-uses and streetcars can bring to a community.” The two-hour tour begins at the main entrance to Whole Foods, 2210 Westlake Ave. The cost is $15. Register online at www.seattlearchitecture.org or call (800) 838-3006. The cost is $20 on the day of the tour if space is available.
Nearly 100 firms in Washington participated, reporting on more than 8,500 positions in eight categories. In addition to salary reporting, the survey includes data on health and retirement benefits, perks, and other corporate policies for non-salary compensation. Members of ACEC Washington that participate in the survey receive a complimentary copy, while non-members have the option of purchasing the survey at a reduced rate. Learn more at www.acec-wa.org/resources.
October 28, 2009
It commemorates the 10th anniversary of the National Design Awards and showcases the winners recognized during the first decade. Kundig was awarded the 2008 National Design Award in Architecture.
Classes begin Jan. 7, 2010, and will be held Wednesday and Thursday evenings, from 6 to 9 p.m., on the UW Tacoma campus. Participants earning the credential must complete three courses over nine months. The instructor, Catherine Crook, is the GIS analyst for the Port of Tacoma and has taught GIS classes for the Department of Forestry. For more information and to apply, visit www.tacoma.washington.edu/pdc, or call (253) 692-4618.
The magazine editors assembled an initial list of candidate firms and then surveyed 16,000 randomly selected Architect readers. Finalist firms were ranked based on caliber of design, sustainable practices, 2008 awards and fiscal responsibility.
NAC also recently ranked 34th in Building Design + Construction magazine's ranking of the top 300 architecture firms in the U.S.
