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October 5, 2016
UW station wins two honors
Sound Transit's University of Washington Station won an honorable mention in the 2016 Innovation by Design awards sponsored by Fast Company magazine.
The station also is a finalist in the 2016 WAN Infrastructure Awards put on by World Architecture News.
LMN Architects designed the station, which opened in March as part of the University Link project. The station has a ground-level entrance near Husky stadium and an entrance from the new pedestrian bridge that crosses Montlake Boulevard.
Riders board trains underground. Travel time to Capitol Hill is four minutes; downtown is eight minutes and Sea-Tac Airport is about 45 minutes.
In a press release, LMN said there were over 1,700 submissions to the IBD program. Fifteen winners were selected in 11 categories, along with a number of finalists and honorable mentions. The UW station was recognized in the spaces, places, cities category.
Go to http://tiny.cc/sesdfy to see all the winners.
LMN said the UW Station is the only North American finalist in WAN's inaugural infrastructure awards. The awards will honor “elegant solutions to vital infrastructure.”
The WAN Awards received 1,379 entries from 72 countries. The awards are divided into 22 categories, including adaptive reuse, transport, performing spaces and waterfront architecture.
Go here for all the infrastructure finalists: http://tiny.cc/bw9hfy/.
Here is the UW station project team: Northlink Transit Partners, prime consultant; Hoffman Construction Co., contractor; Moniz Art & Architecture, architectural technical facilities coordination; The Greenbusch Group, acoustical consultant; Leo Saul Berk, artist; Light Wire, lighting design; LTK Engineering Services, systems design; Start, construction management; Swift Co., landscape architecture; HNTB, station mechanical/electrical/fire protection; KPFF Consulting Engineers, structural/station, civil/grading, utilities, roadway; and Aecom, structural/bridge, civil/site drainage, mechanical/EVS.