AIA Seattle 2004 HONOR AWARDS for WASHINGTON ARCHITECTURE

In the 53rd annual AIA Seattle Honor Awards program, a panel of critical observers reviewed some 150 entries from Washington design professionals, offering remarks and announcing awards Monday evening November 8, 2004 before an enthusiastic assembly of nearly 700 fans and friends of design, at McCaw Hall. A jury comprising architect Ming Fung, Hodgetts + Fung, Culver City CA; Carlos Jimenez, Jimenez Studio/Rice University, Houston; and journalist/author John Morris Dixon FAIA, chief Editor of Progressive Architecture Magazine 1972-96 (jury bios here) reviewed, visited, and discussed local work. (Emergency circumstances required Mehrdad Yazdani, Cannon Design, Los Angeles, originally scheduled to participate, to cancel his visit.)

The jury selected nine projects for award (jury comments and complete project credits here), and commended the quality of the body of work represented by the submittals – noting that of the 150 entries, 52 survived the "first cut" of the jury review.

According to Honor Awards Committee Chair George Shaw AIA, the program sought to assemble work for the purpose of reflection "on the significance of the architecture of our region and its relevance to the human condition, life experiences, and the world in which we live." The jury's observations, in on-stage conversation and in their recorded comments, generally addressed concepts of the role of architecture and the architect in advancing community and global goals.

Honor Awards (3):
· Seattle Central Library, Seattle:
OMA/LMN - A Joint Venture (BI 108)

· Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle Center:
LMN Architects (BO 161)

· Canyon House, 10 miles upstream from Lewiston, Idaho:
Paul Hirzel, Architect (BR 224)

Awards of Merit (4):
· Milepost 9, Seattle residence:
E. Cobb Architects (BR 120)

· Madrona House, Seattle: Vandeventer+Carlander Architects (BR 193)

· Long Residence, Orcas Island:
Cutler Anderson Architects (BR 183)

· Olympic College Poulsbo Branch Campus, Poulsbo:
The Miller|Hull Partnership (BI 185)

Commendations (2):
· U.S. Federal Courthouse, Seattle:
NBBJ (BI 202)

· Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan, Portland:
Mithun Architects + Designers + Planners (NYBU 158)

In the AIA Seattle tradition of openness that stimulated the nation's first all-online conduct of an Honor Awards program beginning in 2000, all entries appear online. Future postings and publications (including the AIA Seattle Firm ProFile, prepared in partnership with Vernon Publications for Spring 2005 completion) will illustrate cited projects and all entries of current work.

Image tiles representing all entries, displayed at McCaw Hall on Honor Awards evening and currently and indefinitely posted on the AIA Seattle web site, will become available for public viewing at AIA Seattle Gallery beginning December 8.

We thank sponsors:
SILVER LEVEL
Lane Powell Spears Lubersky
Lease Crutcher Lewis
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Skanska USA
Swenson Say Fag�t
Wood Harbinger

BRONZE LEVEL
AHBL, Architectural Elevator Consulting, The Berger Partnership, BERGER/ABAM Engineers, Carney Badley Smith & Spellman, Con-Force Structures, Coughlin Porter Lundeen, D'Amato Conversano (DCI), Davis Langdon Adamson, Dionis Solomon, Edifice Construction, Elcon Associates, Flack+Kurtz, Fulks Incorporated, GK Industrial Refuse Systems, GLY Construction, Hargis Engineers, Keen Engineering, KPFF Consulting Engineers, Kruse Brothers Construction, McGraw-Hill, Milgard Windows; Notkin Engineering, Olympic Reprographics, Quantum Consulting Engineers, Quantum Windows & Doors, Reid Middleton, Reprographics NW, Rider Hunt Levett & Bailey, Schultz Miller, Sellen Construction, Site Workshop, Skellenger Bender, Sparling, Stoel Rives LLP, SvR Design Company, Swift & Company, Turner Construction Company, Wohlman & Toschi

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS
CAST Design/Build, Lawrence Architecture, LMN Architects, Northwest Architectural Company, Pro Image Photography, Sparling, Story Light Group, Streeter & Associates Architects, University of Washington College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership