Spring has sprung at Magnuson Park. If you haven’t been in a while, show up on Saturday, May 12 for a host of activities celebrating migratory bird day and the opening of the new shore ponds at 11:30! For more info see the attached flyer.
Seattle AIA recently held its annual What Makes it Green awards. The awards began over a decade ago to recognize and learn from the best in sustainable design and promote the importance of sustainable building practices. This year there were 6 winners and 6 honorable mentions awarded for built and unbuilt projects. The Bullitt Center for Sustainable Design and Construction, a project for which we are honored to be involved, was one of the winners.
Urban Intervention Design Competition
Our vision for Seattle Center’s next fifty years is a new era of innovation fostered by redeveloping open space and interconnecting social, economic, and ecological environments within our cities. Analytical concepts address constraints and unforeseeable conditions through an organic self-evolving process. Creating dense, connected, flexible fabric evokes dialect, linking local and global communities through strategies of flux, blur and incubate. Through the power of portability these tenets approach and transfer ideas, allowing individual urban cores to shape their own solutions.
We love the way snow can transform any landscape and get us to experience a site in fresh new ways. A few shots from Sunday’s snow at Magnuson Park.
Salishan Neighborhood, HOPE VI Revitalization, Tacoma, WA
New Urbanism design principles guided development of this mixed-use, mixed-income, 200-acre housing community. The eco-friendly community with an integrated system of bioswales in open spaces and right-of-ways, and boulevards designed as rain gardens, is the first Hope VI project to receive LEED Platinum for Homes. Other awards include the Puget Sound Regional Council’s VISION 2020, the AIA/HUD Secretary’s Creating Community Connection Award, and a national award for Multifamily Housing by the American Institute of Architects.
Its official, the Magnuson Shore Ponds are now full and are looking REALLY cool.
We are very excited to announce that our internship report Productive Neighborhoods: A case study based exploration of Seattle Urban Agriculture Projects, is complete and hot off the press.
Productive Neighborhoods
As designers, we understand the value of urban farming for its environmental and social benefits, but acknowledge the complexities of creating a successful commercial farm. This report explores existing urban farms in Seattle to better understand how urban farms function and the challenges they must overcome. The research seeks to share the knowledge of each case study and instigate a discussion about how to expand urban farming into Seattle’s food system as a reliable food source. To view the report click here.
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