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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 building designed by Rick Sundberg, FAIA LEED AP of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects has received awards in two major national design competitions.
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.