UW School of Medicine, University of Washington

UW School of Medicine, University of Washington building design

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is pleased to announce their role as landscape architects for the third phase of UW Medicine’s research hub in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, which broke ground earlier this month.

Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington Building

Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington building

Olson Kundig Architects is pleased to announce that plans are underway for improvements to the Bellevue Botanical Garden, with the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society actively working to meet fundraising goals.

Medina Pool House Pavilion Washington

Medina Pool House Pavilion: Washington Real Estate

Medina Pool House Pavilion, Washington, USA: the owners sought a Japanese teahouse influence, owing to his heritage and their shared appreciation for the tranquility of those designs.

Bellevue Home: Enatai House, Washington

Enatai House Washington residence

Enatai House, Bellevue property, Washington: a plain and well-worn, gable-roofed 1960’s home, has been transformed into a series of horizontal and vertical planes and volumes.

Mahlum Endowment Lecture, UW Seattle

Mahlum Endowment Lecture, Seattle

Alan Dunlop will talk about on his passion for hand drawing in architecture. Focusing on the inspirational drawings of great American architects and artists and present his own drawings.

Lightcatcher Building: Whatcom Museum Seattle

Lightcatcher Building: Whatcom Museum, Seattle

Designed by Olson Kundig Architects’ founding partner, Jim Olson, the Lightcatcher is named for its focal point and most innovative feature – a spectacular, translucent wall 37 feet high and 180 feet long that captures the Northwest’s most precious natural resource, sunlight.

L2Q House Seattle: Washington Property

L2Q House, Seattle home

The clients for this house in Seattle have one child, a big dog and a growing collection of books and art. They wanted to build economically, responsibly and creatively. New Seattle home design by Peter Cohan Architect.

Cedar Park House Seattle Residence, WA

Cedar Park House - Seattle Residence

The Cedar Park house is perched on a bluff high above Lake Washington. The building responds directly to the predicament posed by the site – that its most desirable location, at the edge of the bluff, is also its most fragile.

Seattle Public Library Architecture: OMA

Seattle Public Library - OMA Washington Architecture

The library represents, maybe with the prison, the last of the uncontested moral universes. The moral goodness of the library is intimately connected to the conceptual values of the book: the library is its fortress; librarians are its guardians.

St Ignatius Chapel – Steven Holl Building, Architect

St Ignatius Chapel - Steven Holl Building

Seven bottles of light in a stone box; the metaphor of light is shaped in different volumes emerging from the roof whose irregularities aim at different qualities of light: East facing, South facing, West and North facing, all gathered together for one united ceremony.

Seattle Civic Center Architecture, Square

Seattle Civic Center building

The Seattle Civic Square project, which completes the final phase of a ten-year civic masterplan, provides a vital new focus for Seattle’s civic life, reinvigorating the south downtown area for the whole city’s benefit.

Wing Luke Asian Museum Seattle – Architect, USA

Wing Luke Asian Museum Seattle

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have designed the new Wing Luke Asian Museum, scheduled to open on May 31, 2008. The firm’s design preserves and restores the historic fabric of the East Kong Yick Building and offers new and expanded space to the Wing Luke Asian Museum, a Smithsonian Institution affiliate.