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NOVEMEBER

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen and The MillerHull Partnership received Honor Awards from the AIA Northwest and Pacific Region. Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, LMN Architects, and SRG Partnershi received Awards of Merit.

Schemata Workshop received the Professional Unbuilt Award for The Workshop at the Lifecycle Building Challenge 2 sponsored by the EPA, AIA and others.

Emeritus member John H. Melton Jr., AIA of Kirkland, passed away on October 14. He was a member of the AIA since 1978 and, according to his wife, "he loved being a member, and loved being an architect."

OCTOBER

Norman Strong, FAIA, the managing partner of The Miller|Hull Partnership, was awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Northwest & Pacific Region (NW&P) 2008 Medal of Honor.

Two DLR Group-designed projects win national awards: Lincoln High School in Tacoma was awarded a Bronze 2008 Reconstruction and Renovation Award by Building Design & Construction and the Lee J. Brockway Award by The Council of Educational Facility Planners. TCF Architects, Grulich Architecture and Planning and Lease Crutcher Lewis worked with DLR Group on the project. DLR Group's design for Boeing's Twin Aisle Cafe received an Honorable Mention from Retail Traffic's 2008 Superior Achievement in Design and Imaging Awards.

Congratulations to 2008 BetterBricks awards winners: Anne Schopf FAIA, Mahlum Architects; Amanda Sturgeon AIA, Perkins + Will; and Dave Goldberg AIA, Mithun.

Turner Construction's LEED gold renovation of their offices was featured in the Daily Journal of Commerce on October 16.

Callison has been selected to design six sustainable high-rise towers in Dubai. The client is Tameer Holding Investments and the towers will be designed to US LEED standards.

The City of Port Angeles has been awarded technical assistance from the AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team program.

Welcome to Synthesis PC, our newest Member Firm and to Cathy Poshusta from Magnusson Klemencic Associates, our newest allied member.

The Redmond Residence by FINNE Architects (Nils Finne, AIA, Design Principal) was featured in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine Sept.14, 2008. The Redmond Residence was also published in the October/November 2008 issue of Western Interiors.

The 2009 American Architectural Foundation Desk Calendar includes the photo "Villa Savoye" by Tom Lawrence, AIA.

Miller Hull Partnership was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art for the Bumper Crop project. The project team included Evan Bourquard, Thomas Brown, Brian Court, Craig Curtis, Chi Duong, Jeff Floor, Kiki Gram, Todd Hutchinson, Mike Jobes, John MacKay, Maaike Post and Yuki Seda-Kane.

DKA is featured in the October issue of Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.

LMN Architects was honored with an American Architecture Award for their design of the City College of San Francisco's new performing arts center.

SEPTEMBER

Johnston Architects received an AIA Merit Award from AIA Montana for the Bozeman Public Library.

We Recycle Cans and Bottles, Why Not Buildings?, Peter Steinbrueck AIA, September 16, 2008

Seattle Public Library Celebrates "Libraries for All", Stuart Eskenazi, The Seattle Times, September 2008

Magnusson Klemencic Associates won the 2008 ACEC Grand Conceptor Award for the Olympic Sculpture Park.

Professor Emeritus Astra Zarina, of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington passed away August 31 in Civita of Bagnoregio.  Professor Zarina founded what is now the University of Washington Rome Center.  She became an honorary AIA member in 1994.  Plans for a memorial have not yet been announced. 

AUGUST

Magnusson Klemencic Associates announced hiring of 15 new employees thus far in 2008, including 11 full-time engineers.

Winners of The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design's American Architecture Awards program for 2008 included: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, LMN Architects, The Miller/Hull Partnership, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects.

Grace Kim AIA will present the AIA Montana Design Awards on September 19, 2008 at the 2008 AIA Montana Fall Conference in Helena, MT.  The jurors were: Grace H. Kim AIA / Schemata Workshop (Chair), Kate Diamond FAIA / NBBJ, Mary Johnston FAIA / Johnston Architects, and Lesley Bain AIA / Weinstein AU.

Seattle Visionaries:  A Conversation with Tony Gale, by Julia Steinberger, Worldchanging.org

PLACE Architects announces plans to open an office in Vancouver, BC in 2009.

Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects announces groundbreaking for Southern Ute Museum.

PLACE Architects completes its first prefab Built Green house in Kirkland, WA.

JULY

Little Boxes, Crammed Together, Peter Steinbrueck FAIA (AIA Seattle Board Member), Crosscut Seattle, July 2008

Building and Time: The Architecture of Tom Kundig, Charles Mudede, The Stranger, July 2008

Public Needs to Stay Involved When Development is Reviewed, Sharon Sutton AIA, The Seattle Times, July 2008

MAY

The Beauty of Basic, Dean Stahl, Seattle Times, May 2008