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AIA Seattle 2003 HONOR AWARDS FOR WASHINGTON ARCHITECTURE Jury comments and credits

Posted November 11, 2003

HONOR AWARD (1)
Submitting Firm: Suyama Peterson Deguchi
Design Team: George Suyama FAIA, David Derrer, Chris Haddad, Carl Mahaney, Kevin Miyamura, Matt Scholl, Jeff King
Project: FAUNTLEROY RESIDENCE (R 700)
Location: West Seattle neighborhood, Seattle
Owner/Client: Anonymous
Consultants: Swenson Say Fag�t, structural; Geotech Consultants, geotechnical; Alchemie, landscape; Brian Hood, lighting design
General Contractor: Crocker Construction
Photography: Paul Warchol; Suyama Peterson Deguchi
Jury comments: "The Fauntleroy Residence stands out as an instance of masterful design, an achievement of international stature. Informed by a worldly understanding of architectural possibility, the residence nevertheless engages its context and site at every level. Seattle's climate - mild, sometimes wet, sometimes dry - is welcomed with deep overhanging eaves and the patient sequencing of rooms alternately open and enclosed, covered and uncovered. The site's history is evident in two original structures, small beachside cabins, and the use of the prior residence's foundation and porch as a transition between the new structure and the old. At the most basic level, the design emphasizes the long, narrow lot itself. A continuous stream engages the house along its northern edge, narrowing and then pooling in the way that people, moving through the house, flow or pause and then gather. Alongside it, the program unfolds in a syncopated series of spaces that step easily from the modest street-front, into shelter, then enclosure, and open finally onto views of water and mountains framed by the two cabins and a tall cluster of 100-year-old Douglas fir.
"This house exhibits tremendous sureness of hand, never needing to stray from its essential conceptual ideas to generate the logic of its details. At ease with its transitions and variety, simple and exacting in both materials and craft, the Fauntleroy residence is a deeply personal, world-class achievement."

CITATIONS, idea (2)
Submitter: Geoff Piper, Jamie Fleming, Matthew Sullivan
Design Team: Geoff Piper, Jamie Fleming, Matthew Sullivan, the people of Majiwa
Project: MAJIWA VILLAGE CENTER (Majiwa, Kenya) (I 330)
Jury comments: "We admire the effort made to reach a community in need. That the architects have initiated a process of collaboration with the people of a small village in Kenya - despite the enormous challenge of travel and engagement across deep cultural difference - stands as a great beginning."

Submitter: LMN Architects
Design Team: Shirley Chiu, Sherrill Myers, Mark Reddington FAIA, Todd Schwiscow, Christine Scharrer AIA, John Nesholm FAIA, Erik Indvik
Project: ED ERICKSON THEATRE OFF BROADWAY (I 350)
Anticipated completion: Fall 2004
Jury comments: "A simple intervention transforms a pre-existing theater by uniting lobby, seating, and stage in a single, flexible theatrical space. A room-length curtain can be pulled closed to divide the audience and stage from the lobby. With the curtain pulled open, these separate functions unite and refigure the street as a second lobby where another public looks in on the drama of public theater."

CITATIONS, REALIZED (4)
Submitting Firm: SHED
Design Team: Scot Carr
Project: BRADNER GARDENS COMMUNITY BUILDING (R 150)
Location: 1730 Bradner Place South, Seattle
Owner/Client: Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation
Consultants: Todd Perbix PE, structural
General Contractor: Norse Construction
Photography: Scot Carr, SHED
Jury comments: "This project frankly addresses community needs by engaging important issues of sustainability, ease of use, and flexibility through a variety of promising strategies."

Submitting Firm: Donnally Architects
Design Team: Bruce Donnally AIA in collaboration with James Turrell
Project: SKYSPACE PAVILION (R 830)
Location: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
Owner/Client: Henry Gallery Association/University of Washington
Consultants: Magnusson Klemencic, structural; Sparling, electrical; CDI, mechanical; The Boaters Blacksmith Inc., dome design; Christie Lites, light controls
General Contractor: Krekow Jennings Inc.
Photography: Lara Swimmer
Jury comments: "An astonishing work of art has resulted from a close collaboration between artist and architect. The committee especially admires a dome roof, designed by The Boaters Blacksmith, Inc. (Michael Wiegand), that forms a canopy for the bridge (when retracted) and protects against weather (when in place)."

Submitting Firm: E. Cobb Architects
Design Team: Eric Cobb, Emily Li, Ian Butcher, Kirsten Mercer-Cobb, Randal Larsen
Project: LESCHI RESIDENCE (R 732)
Location: Leschi neighborhood, Seattle
Owner/Client: Anonymous
Consultants: Harriott Engineers Inc., structural; Neil H. Twelker & Associates, geotechnical; Alchemie landscape; Elizabeth Stretch Design, kitchen & furnishings
General Contractor: Holyoke Fine Homes
Photography: Paul Warchol
Jury comments: "Through an elegant landscape design by Bruce Hinckley, Alchemie, the street elevation of this surprising house generously presents itself to passersby while still retaining the privacy of the life inside."

Submitting Firm: The Miller|Hull Partnership
Design Team: Robert Hull FAIA, Sian Roberts AIA, Joyce Puri
Project: WILSONVILLE (OR) WATER TREATMENT PLANT (R 365)
Location: 10350 SW Arrowhead Creek Lane, Woodinville, Oregon
Owner/Client: City of Wilsonville/Tualatin Valley Water District
Consultants: Montgomery Watson Harza, environmental engineering and construction; Murase Associates, landscape
General Contractor: Montgomery Watson Harza
Photography: Eckert & Eckert
Jury comments: "This public project transforms a secured water facility into a public amenity by landscaping parklands of natural meadow and stream behind a long, punctured concrete and brick garden wall that protects the facility."


Fautleroy Residence,
Suyama Peterson Deguchi

Majiwa Village Center,
Geoff Piper, Jamie Fleming, Matthew Sullivan, the people of Majiwa

Ed Erickson Theater Off Broadway,
LMN Architects


Bradner Gardens Community Building,
SHED


Skyspace Pavilion,
Donnally Architects


Leschi Residence,
E. Cobb Architects

Wilsonville, Oregon Water Treatment Plant,
Miller|Hull

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