In the last years, we’ve made an honest effort to communicate lectures, tours and events that our employees would be interested in. We used to compile and email the information in-house, but now we share our list with you!
May 9, 2008- Livable Copenhagen: The Design of a Bicycle City, 12:00pm - 1:15pm, Gould Hall, Room 435, University of Washington, Seattle
May 9, 2008- Headlines 2008, Ideas + Projects: Architecture Looking Ahead, 5:00pm - 8:00pm, Gould Court, University of Washington, 3949 15th Avenue NE, Seattle
May 10, 2008- Restroom Design for Crime Prevention and Maintenance
, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Ruston
May 10, 2008- Tukwila Backyard Wildlife Festival, 9:00am - 2:00pm, Tukwila Community Center
*May 12, 2008- Global Green: Danish & Pacific NW Sustainable Planning & Design, Architecture Hall, Rm 147, UW, Seattle
May 21, 2008- Excavating the History of American Modern Architecture, 6:30pm
May 22, 2008- New Directions in Green Development, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seattle Central Library, Seattle
May 23, 2008- SUN Presents to the Sustainable Shoreline Education Association, 7:00pm - 9:00pm, First Christian Reform Church, Shoreline, WA
June 7, 2008- Kiwanis Ravine Work Park, Seattle, WA
June 22-24- Greening the Heartland, Embracing Change 2008, USGBC Annual Conference, St Louis, Missouri
June 26, 2008- Three Colors of Green, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seattle Central Library, Seattle
July 19, 2008- Shoreline’s 5th Annual Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair, Shoreline, WA
September 11-14, 2008- Call for abstracts to the ECLAS, Alnarp, Sweden
September 25, 2008- Integration is an Art, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seattle Central Library, Seattle
October 8-10, 2008- WaterSmart ‘08: Innovations, Las Vegas, NV
October 16, 2008- BetterBricks Leadership Awards Breakfast, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seattle Central Library, Seattle
November 20, 2008- Green Pathways Out of Poverty, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seattle Central Library, Seattle
December 2, 2008- Artist as Environmental Innovator, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seattle Central Library, Seattle
. The Berger Partnership team, Flippin’ Bergers, has 8 members (that’s 30% of our office) competing this year.
We will also have a Creative Commute Day on May 16, where all staff are encouraged to get to work in any way other than a single passenger car. It’s also our excuse to have Dante’s Inferno Dogs to the office.
. They are pleased to announce a final selection of SuttonBeresCuller. Taken from the City of Seattle Website, “Artist team selected for sidewalk art projects SuttonBeresCuller (John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler) of Seattle will design, develop and install artworks for the Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) sidewalk artwork project. The artist team, selected by a peer panel, will work with SDOT staff to integrate artworks into sidewalk renovation projects. The artists will work with SDOT to choose two to three locations for the artworks. Priority areas include neighborhood business districts, public-school walking routes and active pedestrian zones.”
If you’d like to learn more about the artist team, please check out their website.
When: 6 to 8pm. hosted pizza and beer served promptly.
Where: Piecora’s Pizza, 1401 E. Madison Street Map
. From their press release:
Seattle, WA – According to a new report by Seattle-based Sightline Institute, residents of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho have cut back on per capita gasoline consumption by 11 percent from 1999 to 2007, or nearly a gallon a week on average. During that time, weekly gas sales in the Northwest states declined from 8.7 gallons per person to 7.8 gallons.
“In the face of higher prices, we’re taking steps to downshift our gasoline consumption, and it’s paying off,” said Clark Williams-Derry, Sightline research director. “This is good news for the climate, our health, and for our pocketbooks.”
has placed Landscape Architecture as one of their 50 Best Jobs.
is celebrating their 60th birthday this year and to mark the occasion, they decided to give back to the community. They contacted Seattle Parks and were told that Judkins Park in South Seattle could use some help; their response was to adopt a planting area at the corner of Charles and South 22nd . Bassetti contacted the us, the plant experts, to see if we were interested in helping. Honored, we said yes, Jason designed a quick planting layout and the plants were purchased. 7 of us (Steve, Jason, Jonathan, Dana, Jeanette, Katie and Jud), 20 or so from Bassetti, a couple area kids and Jesse from Seattle Parks were there to plant.
The first order of business was the daunting task to get rid of the Horsetail, thoroughly infesting the area, which ended up taking just a couple of hours (it’s amazing how quickly a big job goes when there are lots of people working on it). Some thought that there weren’t going to be enough plants to fill the entire area, so we took a quick expedition to Furney’s Nursery. Getting back we noticed that the planting was done, the mulch was installed and everybody was enjoying the picnic lunch. Jesse and the Parks crews installed the additional plants on Tuesday, the 15th.
Thanks are in order to: Pacific Plants for getting the plants located and shipped, everyone who joined us on Saturday, Bassetti for thinking of us and providing a great picnic lunch and finally Thanks to Jesse for showing up on Saturday to lead the work.
and AIA have joined forces to present the Emerging Professionals Happy Hour Series. This month’s event (this Friday, April 18) will be held at Jones & Jones at their office in Pioneer Square from 5:30pm - 7:00pm. The goal of these events is to highlight the collaboration between architects and landscape architects and to allow local firms to open their doors and share work.
Site Workshop hosted the first event of the year in March & it was a great time; thanks again! We will be hosting June’s event on the 16th of May here at the TBP offices. Hope to see you all there.
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